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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
Organization: INTI
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 09:32:08 +0000
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Subject: Re: Detecting NT
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Eli wrote:
> > Does anybody know how to detect if the current OS is NT?
> 
> This has come up before.  If memory serves, NT is the only platform
> whose DOS box identifies itself as DOS version 5.50 when you call
> function 3306h of interrupt 21h.  So just callig the DJGPP library
> function `_get_dos_version' with a non-zero argument should be enough.

OK, we'll use it to detect NT in RHIDE to avoid problems with the mouse.
Thanks, SET 
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