From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 18:57:39 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document that $^O in Win32 is a bit lacking in details.
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Document that $^O in Win32 is a bit lacking in details.

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diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index ae72617..07ee0db 100644
--- 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 the $^O is not very helpful since it is always
+MSWin32 (or MSWin64, when applicable), 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 those.
+
 =item ${^OPEN}
 
 An internal variable used by PerlIO.  A string in two parts, separated