Finding Reports build version

Hi,
We have a situation where there are reports build through 6i,9i and 10grel2 versions.
Is there a way through reportsAPI or some other tool that we can find the build version of the rdf files. We tried reports API master but it didnt work.
Thanks for the answer in advance.
Imran Ahmed
UAE

This is from the Supplied PL/SQL Packages Reference
DBMS_UTILITY.DB_VERSION (
version OUT VARCHAR2,
compatibility OUT VARCHAR2);
Parameter Description
version
A string which represents the internal software version of the database (e.g., 7.1.0.0.0).
The length of this string is variable and is determined by the database version.
compatibility
The compatibility setting of the database determined by the "compatible" init.ora parameter.
If the parameter is not specified in the init.ora file, then NULL is returned.
There might be an easier way, but calling this through Pro*C seemed to give me the version. I haven't tried with OCI.

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