Synopsis:

$uname(<description>)

Technical:

This function returns system information about the machine on which EPIC is running, similar to the uname(2) system call.

the string <description> parsed according to the following table:

Any instance of	will be replaced with
%m	The “machine” (architecture)
%n	The “Node” (hostname)
%r	The “Release” of the operating system
%s	The “Name” of the operating system
%v	The “Version” of the operating system
%a	The logical value of “%s %n %r %v %m”
%%	A single %

$uname(This machine (%n) is a %m running %s %r)
in one case could return:
This machine (paradigm) is a i686 running Linux 2.2.0