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Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 09:27:12 +1100
From: George Razbash <george@eddieware.org>
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Subject: Re: Win 2000
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Thank YOU, Tim.

I am a bit late with answer. Still did not find the appropriate way to go
with #define variable, So went as the basic: 
1. Introduced the new variable (Global, structure, or pass around parameter
does not matter).
2. And used Windows API function GetVersion to fill it in.

Cheers,
George

N8TM@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 10/14/99 9:50:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> george@eddieware.org writes:
> 
> > How I would detect the OS variable WINVER to be
> >  related to Win2000 (NT5.0)
> Yes, at least in beta 3, it identifies itself as nt5.  The only place I know
> where the gcc compiler distribution checks Windows versions is in libU77,
> where NT5 is treated the same as NT4.  AFAIK cygwin also treats NT5 the same
> as NT4 but it doesn't exhibit all the NT4 bugs when running under W2K.  It
> beats me how you could make a program more portable by distinguishing between
> them.
> 
> Tim
> tprince@computer.org

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