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Alex Greber

Get OS Information - Windows XP vs. Windows 7

"System osSystem" answers 'WIN32_NT' on both OS Windows XP vs. Windows 7.

Any suggestions?

Regards .. Alex

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John O'Keefe-3

Re: Get OS Information - Windows XP vs. Windows 7

Alex -

Did you mean System osType? You can find the specific version of Windows using System osVersion (for example, this answers '5.1 build 2600 Service Pack 3' on WinXP).

John

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Narender Sharma

Re: Get OS Information - Windows XP vs. Windows 7

In Java
System.getProperty( "os.name") gives "Windows XP"
and System.getProperty( "os.version") gives "5.1"

I think we can achieve the same in smalltalk. One of the way could be to read from registry (but then registry can always be tweaked).

Thanks!

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Alex Greber

Re: Get OS Information - Windows XP vs. Windows 7

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Hoi John.

Yes I meant "System osType"

So Looking at the first 3 characters of String "System osVersion" is the solution.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724832(VS.85).aspx

Operating system	Version number
Windows 7	6.1
Windows Server 2008 R2	6.1
Windows Server 2008	6.0
Windows Vista	6.0
Windows Server 2003 R2	5.2
Windows Server 2003	5.2
Windows XP 64-Bit Edition	5.2
Windows XP	5.1
Windows 2000	5.0

Thanks! Alex

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Narender Sharma

Re: Get OS Information - Windows XP vs. Windows 7

This is valuable information. Thanks for sharing it.

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Narender Sharma

Re: Get OS Information - Windows XP vs. Windows 7

In reply to this post by Alex Greber

One thing that is problematic with version numbers is that they are not unique for different OS...

Operating system	Version number
Windows 7	6.1
Windows Server 2008 R2	6.1
Windows Server 2008	6.0
Windows Vista	6.0
Windows Server 2003 R2	5.2
Windows Server 2003	5.2
Windows XP 64-Bit Edition	5.2

Thanks!

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