From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-01-20T13:39:58+09:00
Subject: Re: detecting Win95/Win98/WinME

In article <400C7EF0.2080606@path.berkeley.edu>,
Joel VanderWerf  <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>> irb(main):001:0> `ver`
>> => "\nMicrosoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]\n"
>
>Thanks, that does the trick.

Hmmm... but that's not exactly cross-platform.  
Is ver available on all flavors of Windows?

BTW: you could probably check some section of the Registry, but it's not 
very straightforward in my experience.

Phil