From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Jan 10 13:49:20 2003
Subject: Re: How to detect terminal type?
From: Andy Adler <adler at site dot uottawa dot ca>
To: Peter Brinkmann <brinkman at math dot uiuc dot edu>
cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:48:40 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Peter Brinkmann wrote:
> So, my new question is, what's the best way to detect whether my code is
> running under *nix or Windows? I guess I could look at the result of
> computer(), but I don't know what kind of result it returns when running
> under Windows. Can I detect Windows by checking whether
> 	findstr(computer(),'windows')
> returns a nonzero value, or how should I go about this?

my definition of windows is:
   ~isempty( findstr(computer(),'cygwin') )

Currently, I believe all octave for windows runs on top
of cygwin, so this is reliable.

However, if Paul Kienzle ever finishes his octave on mingw project,
then that way change ...

andy




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