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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!spies!wicat!kevin
- From: kevin@wicat.com (Kevin Vigor)
- Subject: Re: DOS Box Programming
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.185446.21728@wicat.com>
- Organization: WICAT Systems
- References: <boh.724320875@sfu.ca> <1992Dec14.180704.29564@wicat.com> <1992Dec17.230826.5577@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:54:46 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec14.180704.29564@wicat.com> kevin@wicat.com (Kevin Vigor) writes:
- >>> 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?
-
- Certainly possible, but this seems far more likely to change in a future
- release than does the DOS version. Of course, it's easy to fake out the
- DOS version check and harder to remove OS2LDR or somesuch.
-
- Interestingly enough, I have reveived the PDK since this thread started, and
- the only information I can find relating to programming the DOS box is about
- using named pipes to communicate between a DOS session and a OS/2 session. I
- can find absolutely no mention of time-slicing (though the call I originally
- mentioned does work), nor anything else of interest. I sincerely hope this
- information will be documented in a later version (preferably very soon!).
-
- --
- Peace & PopTarts,
- Kevin
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