Hmmm... I recall there being a function in the Win32::AdminMisc module that would return all of the information about an OS, including the build number. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure the module is no longer under development. However, I do believe the source is available from Dave Roth's website. You can always just recompile the source to match your perl distribution and use that (if I recall, it's one of those XS-based modules).

I'm not sure if ActiveState has included a GetOSBuild-type function in the Win32 module (I still use 522 on my Windows machines) for the newer versions of their Perl. Also, a word of caution. The Win32::AdminMisc module was built before WinXP. So, some of the tricks Dave used to build the module may be broken in the newer include files (in MS VC++). However, it should be possible to backtrack and update the code dependencies if that's the case.

Hope that helps some,

Theodore Charles III
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