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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:02:47 -0500
From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Subject: Automatic Way to Tell if a FreeBSD system is 64 or 32-bit?
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	Is there a FreeBSD command similar to the Linux arch
command?

	I have built a fairly decent Bourne shell script to run
just after installing mfsbsd on a target system. It figures out
the likely boot drive, formats it and then begins to build a
FreeBSD system on it. The script could intelligently ask for the
64-bit or 32-bit trees if it could determine whether it was
running on the i86 or 64-bit system.

Thank you.