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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 20:43:04 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu
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In-reply-to: <10109281641.AA15140@clio.rice.edu> (sandmann@clio.rice.edu)
Subject: Re: fixpath patch (rev 2)
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:41:14 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> > > By the way, this section of code will never call AH=60
> > > truename call, it will always call the 7160 version (does it ever
> > > return UNC?)
> > 
> > I don't know.
> > 
> > One (tedious) way to try is to see if MSCDEX in DOS mode returns a UNC
> > with AH=60h.  If it does, you could fire up Windows 9X but disable its
> > 32-Bit File Access.  This should cause it to call down to DOS,
> > including MSCDEX (which should be loaded in this case).
> 
> But this still wouldn't be under ver=0x532, which is the only way to
> reach this code.

Well, on W2K, you never call 216000h, only 217160h, right?  Since you
said AH=60h, I thought you were talking about Windows 9X.

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