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> From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:16:41 +1000
> 
> Instead of re-inventing the wheel Allegro has support for a number of
> different OS's and it tests for these and sets an appropriate variable and
> you get to the variable via a function call if I remeber correctly.  It may
> be usefull to look at this to see how this works as Allegro now works on
> DJGPP, VC++, GNU on Linux  and looks like some other platforms as well.

IIRC, Allegro does the same, but in addition it looks at some
environment variables normally set on NT and its family.  I don't
think the library should look at those environment variables unless it
absolutely has to, because environment variables is something a user
can set and reset.