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Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

How can I determine whether my AS 5.6..1 script is running under MSWin32 NT/2000/XP or MSWin32 95/98 etc?

use Config; print @Config{qw/osname archname/};

gives me the same info in both cases.