>Can anyone tell me how I would go about making my app know the
>difference between windows95/98 and windowsNT4? I found several
>different ways of checking the version with my app in the KB, but now
>way of making it so that my app can automatically tell the difference,
>and then do something totally different.

>I also have one other problem. I am making a program that writes a
>file to the windows folder. This is fine, I can do that. But I need to
>know how to determine where the windows directory is automatically.
>Right now my program writes the file (in code) to C:\WINDOWS....  but
>not everyone installs Windows to their C drive. I need to know how to
>make my app "find" where Windows is installed.

>Many thanks in advance,
>That Dude

>I also have one other problem. I am making a program that writes a
>file to the windows folder. This is fine, I can do that. But I need to
>know how to determine where the windows directory is automatically.
>Right now my program writes the file (in code) to C:\WINDOWS....  but
>not everyone installs Windows to their C drive. I need to know how to
>make my app "find" where Windows is installed.

>Can anyone tell me how I would go about making my app know the
>difference between windows95/98 and windowsNT4? I found several
>different ways of checking the version with my app in the KB, but now
>way of making it so that my app can automatically tell the difference,
>and then do something totally different.

>I also have one other problem. I am making a program that writes a
>file to the windows folder. This is fine, I can do that. But I need to
>know how to determine where the windows directory is automatically.
>Right now my program writes the file (in code) to C:\WINDOWS....  but
>not everyone installs Windows to their C drive. I need to know how to
>make my app "find" where Windows is installed.

>Many thanks in advance,
>That Dude

>>I also have one other problem. I am making a program that writes a
>>file to the windows folder. This is fine, I can do that. But I need to
>>know how to determine where the windows directory is automatically.
>>Right now my program writes the file (in code) to C:\WINDOWS....  but
>>not everyone installs Windows to their C drive. I need to know how to
>>make my app "find" where Windows is installed.

>Windows adds an environment variable which you can use. If you type SET
>at the DOS-prompt, you'll see it: windir=C:\WINDOWS

>To write a file to this directory, you just open a file named:
>"%windir%\myfile.txt"

>If your windows directory is called C:\WINDOWS, it will create a file
>called C:\WINDOWS\MYFILE.TXT. If you're using C:\WIN95, for example,
>a file named C:\WIN95\MYFILE.TXT will be created instead.

>THis works with DOS Basics -- I'm not absolutely certain Windows Basic's
>would work the same way, but there's only one way to find out...

>Use the following API's to retrieve the Windows directory and to identify
>the current OS version.
>Help Files tell use to use the GetVersionEx with the OSVERSIONINFO type
>structure other than the GetVersion API. I've tried using it only to receive
>a compile error ("user defined types cannot be passed ByVal"). I've switched
>over to ByRef with the return being all zeros, possible due to my
>installation of Win95 Desktop Update. Anyway, I think this should do the
>job.

>Private Declare Function GetWindowsDirectory Lib "kernel32" Alias
>"GetWindowsDirectoryA" (ByVal lpBuffer As String, ByVal nSize As Long) As
>Long

>Private Declare Function GetVersion Lib "kernel32" () As Long

>Private Const VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT = 2
>Private Const VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_WINDOWS = 1
>Private Const VER_PLATFORM_WIN32s = 0

>Dim WinDir As String         'Buffer to hold WINDOW dir.
>Dim WinDirLen As Long    'Length of buffer
>Dim winRC As Long           'GetWindowsDirectory Return Code
>Dim verRC As Long           'GetVersion return code

>WinDir = Space(255)
>WinDirLen = Len(WinDir)

>wRC = GetWindowsDirectory(WinDir, WinDirLen)

>verRC = GetVersion()

>    Select Case verRC
>        Case VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT
>            'Do something here.
>        Case VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_WINDOWS
>            'Do something
>        Case VER_PLATFORM_WIN32s
>            'Do something
>        Case Else
>            'Some other version not recognized.
>    End Select

>>Can anyone tell me how I would go about making my app know the
>>difference between windows95/98 and windowsNT4? I found several
>>different ways of checking the version with my app in the KB, but now
>>way of making it so that my app can automatically tell the difference,
>>and then do something totally different.

>>I also have one other problem. I am making a program that writes a
>>file to the windows folder. This is fine, I can do that. But I need to
>>know how to determine where the windows directory is automatically.
>>Right now my program writes the file (in code) to C:\WINDOWS....  but
>>not everyone installs Windows to their C drive. I need to know how to
>>make my app "find" where Windows is installed.

>>Many thanks in advance,
>>That Dude