Creating an install script that determines what version of Oracle

What would be the best way to check/determine what Oracle database a user is running in order to determine what code streams need to be installed. For example would I log into sqlplus and do a select * from v$version or could I do something outside of sqlplus. I was hoping to do everything from a Unix script without envoking sqlplus to determine the version, does anyone have any ideas.

Thanks!

Derek

PS Oh ya I almost forgot I am from Ottawa, Canada Received on Fri Jun 09 2000 - 15:44:54 CDT