From:	"Wojciech Galazka" <wojciech DOT galazka AT polkomtel DOT com DOT pl>
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Subject:	Re: Win2k vs Win NT4 -how to distinguish
Date:	Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:42:42 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii wrotye in a message
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>The problem is, there's no simple way of distinguishing between NT and
>W2K from a DJGPP program.

Once there was a library that provided access to Windows registry from DOS
level.
It worked for Win9x but perhaps it's possible to make it work under Windows
NT as well.
Once one has access to registry hives it should be rather easy to find out
which version of Windows is running.

The library is available from
http://www.hoogervorst.demon.nl/proteus/files/regdos.zip

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