On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm sure there's a trivial way to do this, but what's a simple way > > to tell if a system has a 32 or a 64 bit CPU? something that i could > > run from within a script. thanks. > > If the script runs on a 64 bit CPU, equipped with a 32 bit OS, > should it return 32 or 64? 64. i'm interested in the actual CPU property. rday