A new package has been put on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror.
Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: ifplatform Author's name: Will Robertson Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ifplatform Summary description: Conditionals for testing the operating system being used License type: lppl
Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package uses -shell-escape to establish whether the document is being processed on Windows or a *NIX platform (Mac OS X, Linux, etc.).
Booleans provided are: - ifwindows - iflinux - ifmacosx ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ifplatform . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ifplatform (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .