48.4. $targetSystemBaseFileNameSuffix

When passed an operating system abbreviation or operating system number, $targetSystemBaseFileNameSuffix returns the system-dependent part of the STRING used in forming the default objmod and intmod file names for the specified operating system (the “file abbreviation”). The file abbreviation is generally either the same as the system name abbreviation, or the first 3 characters of the system name abbreviation. For example, $targetSystemBaseFileNameSuffix("uspa") returns "usp".

If no argument is passed, the file abbreviation for the current operating system is returned.

The STRING form of $targetSystemBaseFileNameSuffix may return a substring of its argument, so that if the result is to be used in a file name and the input STRING might not be all lowercase, you should convert the result to lower case explicitly.