Re: A way to determine Architecture?

[Chris Albertson]

Jose Roman Bilbao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a way to query the system about its own architecture. I
> just need some way to know if it is a LINUX, LINUX-ALPHA or something
> similar. I have not been ablo to find it out on the web or autoconf
> mailing list.
>
> Thanks.

Try the command
  uname -a

On my Solaris 9/Intel system is goes like this

wi792:~>uname -a
SunOS wi792 5.9 on81-feature-patch:11/23/2002 i86pc i386 i86pc
wi792:~>

You would have to then scan the output from uname.  I _think_
uname is somewhat portable