Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 14:36:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Thomas Chan <tc31 AT cornell DOT edu>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: running opendos with win 95
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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, yeep wrote:

> > > > This is a very good point you've raised Yeep.  I guess now we
> > > > find out exactly how closely tied 95 is to MSDOS eh?  I still
> > > > look at W95/DOS7 as a DOS7/Win4.0 combo and not as M$ wants us to
> > > > believe.  If you look at the MBR of a drive with 95 on it, it
> > > > shows the text "MS-WIN 4.1" or something like that.  Hmmm....
> > > 
> > > Hah!
> > > Run MSD en look at your DOS version!
> > 
> > MSD?  I deleted MSD.  My DOS version is 6.22.
> 
> Oh, well If I use MSD during a Win95 DOS session, I get DOS version 7.0

This doesn't mean anything.  There's a DOS function call that returns the
OS major and minor version numbers.  If you have the setver.exe TSR
loaded, you should be able to fake out that function call with whatever
you want.

When I ran MSD under a DOS box in OS/2 2.1, it returned version "20.1".


Thomas Chan
tc31 AT cornell DOT edu