From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Is DOS dead?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:40:51 +0000
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Michael Tippach wrote:
> 
> > What's "OS" in the environment set to? E.g. under NT 4 it's
> > "OS=Windows_NT"
> 
> W2K sets it to the same string (or so I'm told).

Yes, I can confirm this for Windows 2000 Advanced Server.

BTW Windows 2000 proves scrollback in DOS boxes, which is something I've
wanted for a while.

Bye,

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Richard Dawe
richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com ICQ 47595498 http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/