Okay, I did some research (using google mostly) and I found that I do indeed have all the right numbers. And now that I am at home where I have Win 2k, I see that $build is now correct... Can anyone confirm that it is only correct on NT based systems?

I have also taken jeffa's advice and used a lookup table. But, I extended what he wrote a little. Here is the latest version:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32;

my ($string, $major, $minor, $build, $id) = Win32::GetOSVersion();
my %lookup = (
   1 => {
      4 => {
        0 => 'Win 95',
        3 => 'Win 95 OSR2',   # this is new!
        10 => 'Win 98',
        90 => 'Win ME',
      },
   },
   2 => {
      3 => {
        51 => 'Win NT 3.51',
      },
      4 => {
        0 => 'Win NT 4.0',
      },
      5 => {
         0 => 'Win 2k',
         1 => 'Win XP',
      },
   },
);

my $os = $lookup{$id}->{$major}->{$minor};
$os  ||= 'Unknown Win32s flavor';

print "$os, $major.$minor, build $build";
print ", $string" if ($string ne "");
print "\n";


BEGIN {
    if ($^O !~ "Win32") {
        print "This is not a Win32 system.  Exiting...\n";
        exit;
    }
}

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Updated the code to display build number and $string...
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In reply to Re: Which flavor of Win32? by Mr. Muskrat
in thread Which flavor of Win32? by Mr. Muskrat

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