On Wed Nov 28 19:23:13 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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? >
Yes.