The intent of Aldo's patch is even closer than I first thought to what I proposed last night ... as is evident from this question:
For a given instance of perl on a given OS, can I assume that the two commands below will *always* produce the same output? [parrot] 506 $ perl -MConfig -le 'print $Config{osname}' darwin [parrot] 507 $ perl -le 'print $^O' darwin In other words, does $Config{osname} simply record the content of $^O for a given platform? Thank you very much. kid51