Subj : Re: Detecting Win XP
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Martin
Date : Wed Jun 16 2004 12:50 am

Jogy <jogy@sirma.bg> wrote:
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>The VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT includes XP.
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>You must check the dwMajorVersion and dwMinorVersion members:
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>dwMajorVersion
>Identifies the major version number of the operating system as follows. 
>Windows 95: 4
>Windows 98: 4
>Windows Me: 4
>Windows NT 3.51: 3
>Windows NT 4.0: 4
>Windows 2000: 5
>Windows XP: 5
>Windows .NET Server: 5
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>dwMinorVersion
>Identifies the minor version number of the operating system as follows. 
>Windows 95: 0
>Windows 98: 10
>Windows Me: 90
>Windows NT 3.51: 51
>Windows NT 4.0: 0
>Windows 2000: 0
>Windows XP: 1
>Windows .NET Server: 1
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>Check this sample code from MSDN:
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/getting_the_system_version.asp
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>Jogy
>http://www.jogy.net/

last year I implemented this function in CBuilder 5 and tested this on XP en W2k (answers 5.1 and 5.0 = both correct) 
but the same function implemeted in Borland C++ 5.02 the answers: 5.0 for W2k (correct) but 7.2 for XP (?)

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