From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: brakjoller@hotmail.com (Barman Brakjoller) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Operating system in an emacs variable? Date: 21 Mar 2003 12:38:54 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1c58a7c3.0303211238.1d391d28@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048279352 14542 80.91.224.249 (21 Mar 2003 20:42:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 20:42:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 21 21:42:31 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18wTKp-0003it-00 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 21:41:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18wTJM-0003Fr-0B for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:40:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 8 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.181.21.115 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1048279134 6237 127.0.0.1 (21 Mar 2003 20:38:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Mar 2003 20:38:54 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111302 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7801 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7801 > I am looking for a variable or function in Emacs which gives me > information about the operating system the emacs process is running Oh? What a disapointment! The subject of this thread sounded really really cool; imagine putting a whole operating system into an emacs variable! That would have been really cool! :)