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32 or 64 bit of HP_UX

Can someone tell me how to check if the HP - Unix(11.x) you are running is of 32 bit or 64 bit. is there any command to check that.
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From: http://www.interex.org/pubcontent/enterprise/sep99/08coon.html
A machine can be 32-bit or 64-bit. The determination of "bitness" is made at install or update time. You can "Update" from 11.00 32-bit to 11.00 64-bit and vice versa--a practice known as "sidedating." If you are sidedating from 11.00 64-bit to 11.00 32-bit, remember that 64-bit binary data cannot be used by 32-bit applications.
64-bit machines can run 32-bit and 64-bit applications. Use the file(1) command to determine whether a file is 32-bit or 64-bit.
64-bit is described as ELF-64
32-bit is described as PA-RISC
You can use this technique to tell if a machine is 32-bit or 64-bit, by applying it to /stand/vmunix. Another way, and one that works well in scripts, is to use the getconf(3M) command, passing KERNEL_BITS. For example, getconf KERNEL_BITS will return either "32" or "64."

So:
file /stand/vmunix
should do it
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Thanks yuzh and liddler , the info provided was very informative.
that wld do it.

if u R lazy, run SAM and check on the "system properties".
the answer u R looking for is there too.
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