I'm writing a script that will automate the installation process of some products we're rolling out. Part of the installation is to verify that the target computer meets the minimum configuration (disk space, OS, RAM, etc). So far I've been able to find modules for disk space and operating system. I have yet to be able to find a way to determine how much RAM is installed on a computer through Perl. I've tried capturing the output of Windows' mem command, but it returns different things on different versions (plus on my NT box it only returns how much of the 640K is left).
Is there a module available that will let me check RAM? If not, is anyone aware of a Windows method that I can call through the Win32::API interface? Is the amount of installed RAM in the registry somewhere?

Guildenstern
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In reply to Available RAM in Win32? by Guildenstern

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