Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Chris Herborth Subject: Re: is there a (cygwin?) method delivering the current version of windows? Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:10:58 -0500 Organization: QNX Software Systems Ltd. Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <41F4B046.7010908@gmx.net> Reply-To: cherborth@qnx.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mobius.qnx.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) In-Reply-To: <41F4B046.7010908@gmx.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes H. Henning Schmidt wrote: > I am looking for a method available to my cygwin'ed C-program that > delivers the current version of windows that my program is running on. > E.g. "WinXp, SP1", or "Win98 ..." (... you get the idea ...) either in > textual or numerically encoded form. > Any hint is appreciated. Thanks, You could probably dig it out of the registry, but 'uname -s' will give you something useful. On my XP Pro system, I get CYGWIN_NT-5.1 (XP is "Windows NT 5.1"), for example. -- Chris Herborth (cherborth@qnx.com) Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/