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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: How to detect OS type and version?
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"Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com> wrote in message
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> That way doesn't give the version of the OS.

But once you know that you're running on Windows, you can arrange to call
the Win32 Get_Version function to learn all of the details. (You'd have to
do that with a dynamic call to avoid statically linking part of the Windows
runtime.) I presume something similar is available in the Linux API.

                          Randy.