For those that might try to cut/paste $code or dies' example:   print "$_\n" for Win32::GetOsVersion(); should read:   print "$_\n" for Win32::GetOSVersion(); Win32::GetOSVersion() showed up in the initial searches I made via The Perl CD Bookshelf. It was the first thing I tested but I forgot to mention it in the original post. Apologies for that.

My primary objection to it was that I couldn't easily discern whether a system was using Windows 2000 or not. The software that I'm looking at must distinguish between win2k and nt. I'll confirm this at work Monday, since I don't have access to win2k at home. It also doesn't mention anything about Windows ME, although for my purposes it can be lumped together with win9x.

Thanks for bringing it up though, as others will want to be aware of it as a alternative approach.

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein

In reply to Re: Re: Windows Version Detection by jlongino
in thread Windows Version Detection by jlongino

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