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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
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
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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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Dennis