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Carsten Dominik <dominik@_DROP_THIS_science.uva.nl> writes:

> I am looking for a variable or function in Emacs which gives me
> information about the operating system the emacs process is running
> on.  Basically, I would like to know if I am running Linux or MacOSX.
> There must be a variable containing this information, but I could not
> find it.  Anyone?

(getenv "MACHINE")

-- 
Bastien