Is there a way of telling which version of MSWIN32 is being used for a perl script?

The reason I ask is that I provide a default editor as part of my GUI (it can be changed via the option menu) and I have found that notepad is under a different direcory on Vista to W2K or XP. I can check to see if the file is in a number of places and return a message box if it is not where I think it should be....but was wondering if there was a quicker solution

I have had to do different things depending on whether the OS is linux or windows...I expect that...but not between variations of windows. I thought using $^0 would be enough but apparently not

I am using Perl 5.8 (because it comes with Tk)...just for info

p.s. As an habitual vi user, I keep hitting the escape button when I finish editing and lose everything :-(

p.p.s. Question is too general to provide example code

In reply to Which MS Windows? by lantfred

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