Marco van de Voort wrote: >> If your distro complies with the LSB standards (most popular distros >> do), then you should have a /etc/lsb-release text file that you can >> parse. > > FC11, no such file, but there is a dir lsb-release.d with the contents >
You're not really supposed to be looking at /etc/lsb* files directly. Rather you should run "lsb_release". Try "lsb_release --all". For the short name of the distribution, something like "lsb_release --id --short" is appropriate, see the manpage. Michalis _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal