Bullet Proof Platform Detector

Date: Fri Nov  6 07:20:17 MST 1998
From: Jakob Hede Madsen <hede@image.dk>
Subject: Bullet Proof Platform Detector

> I was browsing this digest and found an article on "the machineType".
> Because a lot of newer Macs report numbers higher than 256, it recommends
> using "the machineType = 256" for checking PC/Mac.
> 
> Now, but isn't "the platform" more solid ways differentiate two, if all you
> want is whether a machine is PC or Mac?
> 
> And it there any Mac out there that reports 256 as "the machineType"
> I'm not a Mac expert; Mac users, please respond.

set OS = getAProp([":": #mac, "\": #win], the last char of the pathName)