Petition OS for version information

[biot023]

Does anybody know how to ask, in Access VBA, which operating system is being used?
I need to do this, as a system I wrote for windows '97 is now needed to run on Windows 2000 machines as well. The trouble is, it calls different versions of a viewer, depending on the OS, that are kept in different directories.

Any help is deeply appreciated.

Douglas JL If it don't make you laugh, it ain't true.

 

[larryww]

You'd think that this was embarassingly simple, but I don't happen to know it either.

Until someone gives the answer, here's a fallback possibility for you - an ActiveX control (I haven't used it):

http://www.mabry.com/sysinfo/

 

[KyleS]

Try:
Environ("OS&quot

Kyle :

 

[larryww]

Debug.Print &quot;<&quot; & Environ(&quot;OS&quot & &quot;>&quot;
comes back as &quot;<>&quot; here - A2K on Win98

 

[KyleS]

Yeah, you'll have that, it's an NT variable, so I think (Haven't tried) it would work on 2000 but it definitely won't work on 9x. I was sending it to Douglas in hopes that it would work on 2000 so if nothing else he could run a If IsNull(Environ(&quot;OS&quot) Then function or something...

I'll find the answer for 9x and post it ASAP. Kyle :

 

[larryww]

You can look this over FWIW...

http://www.forumco.com/jmhare/topic...sion+of+Windows&Forum_Title=General+Questions