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Re: is there a (cygwin?) method delivering the current version of windows?


On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:13:33AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 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?

Ok; you're wrong :)

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