Bingo, beautiful! I was trying to find a way to parse VER like Fred suggested, but you found the trick, Tracy. Testing, it works on NT, Win2K, XP, and probably will work on Win 2003 as well. That's all I need.

--Thanks much, Tracy, this is a major help for my SMS deployments.


>I think I found something that works:
>

>@ECHO OFF
>VER | FIND "Windows 9" >NUL
>IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO GO9
>
>VER | FIND "Windows NT" >NUL
>IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO GoNT
>
>VER | FIND "Windows 2000" >NUL
>IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO GO2K
>
>VER | FIND "Windows XP" >NUL
>IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO GOXP
>
>GOTO GOOUT
>
>:GO2K
>ECHO Windows 2000
>GOTO GOOUT
>
>:GOXP
>ECHO Windows XP
>GOTO GOOUT
>
>:GONT
>ECHO Windows NT
>GOTO GOOUT
>
>:GOOUT
>

>It seems to work on XP and 98 but I haven't tried it on any others...
>
>>I know I should know this, but I've long forgotten. I have a new temporary BAT that checks for NT or XP OS to do installs via SMS. How does the DOS OS check code work? Something like this, in pseudocode:
>>
>>If OS = NT install this
>>
>>If OS = XP install that