Follow up on changing keyword to special subroutine.

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perlvar.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index ae72617..dd9bbaa 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -1003,6 +1003,12 @@ built, as determined during the configuration process.  The value
 is identical to C<$Config{'osname'}>.  See also L<Config> and the 
 B<-V> command-line switch documented in L<perlrun>.
 
+In Windows platforms, $^O is not very helpful: since it is always
+C<MSWin32>, it doesn't tell the difference between 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/CE.
+Use Win32::GetOSVersion() (see L<perlport>) and other means (like for
+example the presence/absence of some files) to distinguish between
+the variants.
+
 =item ${^OPEN}
 
 An internal variable used by PerlIO.  A string in two parts, separated