Re: [Mingw-users] "uname" equivalent ?

[Mark E. <me...@ge...>]

Joerg Bruehe wrote:
> Dear MinGW users,
> 
> I am looking for the Win32 equivalent of the Unix "uname" function -
> getting textual information about machine name, OS version etc.
> 
> Is there any such thing?
> 
> A search for the Unix keywords "uname", "nodename", and "sysname" 
> in our local MSDN did not lead me to any suitable reference, 
> so the keyword seemt to be something different.
> 
> TIA, 
> Joerg Bruehe
> 
> 

Try gethostname for the machine name, followed by GetVersionEx for os version.


TTFN

Mark Elliss