How to detect that program is running on Win2000

[uprichard]

I need to detect which OS the perl program is running on. I can not use $os = $ENV{'OS'}; as that returns Windows_NT

Any one know how to detect the correct OS?

 

[PaulTEG]

Win 2K is NT 5.0,

On a windows2000 platform, you could call "ver" which should return the OS version (works here on XP & 98)

This works, you can tailor that

$os=`ver`;
print "$os";

 

[missbarbell]

The Perl internal variable $^O holds the operating system type, with valid strings of

MacOS
MSWin32
os2
VMS
epoc
NetWare
dos
cygwin

For further info, if you are running via a web server (eg IIS or Apache) then you can check the value of $ENV{'OS'}.

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