[Mono-list] Reliable OS identification on Mono

[Chris Howie]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Vladislav Rastrusny
<FractalizeR at yandex.ru> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Is there a way to reliably determine OS, application is running on in Mono?
> My application needs to access files of some external application
> (also multiplatform) and those files are located in different places
> depending on OS.
> On Windows it is under ApplicationData, on Linux under /home/user/app
> and on MacOS... I don't know ;) Never installed it.

If /home/user/.config is ok on Linux then you can use:

Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData),
"yourappdir");

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