Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote:
> In a particular script , that is used on multiple unix platforms, I
> need to know if my perl script is being run on a 32 bit machine or a
> 64 bit machine
> 
> Is there any way I can find this portably

Can you not just run uname?

$SystInfo = `uname -a`


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