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Old 10-02-2014, 12:47 PM   #63
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Originally Posted by MikeB1972 View Post
In windows programming, yes, I'd agree.

But there are issues in some languages.
e.g java has a popular function
System.getProperty("os.name")
that does return Windows 95 etc as a string
Sure, but it will be an unambiguous string. You won't be able to confuse Windows versions unless your routine to parse the returned value is brain-dead and not looking at the whole string. That's your error, not an OS issue.
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