From: "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Is DOS dead?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:35:39 -0500
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Richard Dawe wrote:

> 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.

    But, does it get 'cleared' or flicker when you run DJGPP programs?  NT4
did stuff like that when I ran 'ls'.

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(\/) Rolf Campbell (\/)