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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:13:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
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Subject: Re: is there a (cygwin?) method delivering the current version of windows?
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:22:30AM +0100, H. Henning Schmidt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 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,
> > ;Henning
>
> There's probably a much easier way, but:
>
> $ perl -wle'print for Win32::GetOSVersion'
> [snip]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this require the Win32 bundle (or,
rather, the perl-libwin32 package) to be installed?
	Igor
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