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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: DOS Box Programming
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.230826.5577@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <boh.724320875@sfu.ca> <1992Dec14.180704.29564@wicat.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:08:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.180704.29564@wicat.com> kevin@wicat.com (Kevin Vigor) writes:
- >>Hi, I am wondering about programming a serial communication programme in DOS
- >>but would like to make it "OS/2 aware". Thus I have the following questions.
- >> 1. Is there a way to detect if a programme is operation in OS/2 2.0's
- >> dos box ?
- >A question I'd like an answer to myself; however, at the moment, I am just
- >checking the DOS version; if the major version is 20 or higher, I assume
- >I'm dealing with OS/2 2.x or better.
-
- How about looking for an OS/2 2.x-specific file that will always be in
- the same location?
-
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