Thanks Tim, think I will go for the second option although the first sounds much more interesting.
Bob
Tim Rowledge wrote:
Oh, easy. If it keeps crashing then it must be windows. If it rarely crashes but the GUI is horrible it must be *nix If it rarely crashes and the UI is ok but insists on a single button mouse it must OSX If it rarely crashes - but when it does it really pisses you off - and the GUI is ok with a three button mouse but the machine seems a bit slow by modern standards then it must be RISC OS.
Or you can be really boring and use SmalltalkImage current platformName and look at other methods in SmalltalkImage for further messages to get more or less detail.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim My Go this amn keyboar oesn't have any 's.
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