system platforms

[Charity]

Why does Help say this

 

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Get(SystemPlatform) returns -2 when the current platform is a Windows platform.

Abs(Get(SystemPlatform)) returns 1 when the current platform is macOS.

when i try Get ( SystemPlatform ) it returns 1 also so why the Abs()?

[comment]

It's a holdover from a time when there were PowerPC-based Macs and the function would return -1 for those.

[Charity]

Thank you Comment. so is it safest to use Abs or have they just not changed help?  Is anyone still using PowerPC-based Macs with FM?

[comment]

3 hours ago, Charity said:

Is anyone still using PowerPC-based Macs with FM?

I don't think it's possible to run a .fmp12 file on a PowerPC Mac. Apparently FMI didn't think so either, since the change occurred in v.12.