Re: automatic system info tool?

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:06:50AM -0400, Bort, Paul wrote:
> If you can open a command shell you can get the OS version with the
> 'ver' command under Windows:
>
> C:\>ver
>
> Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

How do you do this from a program though. Under UNIX uname() is a
function call as well as a program. It returns the os name, version,
hostname and system type.

Mind you, maybe perl provides emulation for uname?

Have a nice day,
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