To: tc31 AT cornell DOT edu
Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
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From: "-= ArkanoiD =-" <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
Date: Tue,  1 Apr 97 02:37:35 +0300
Subject: Re: running opendos with win 95
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nuqneH,

> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 14:36:55 -0500 (EST)
> From: Thomas Chan <tc31 AT cornell DOT edu>
> X-Sender: thomas AT fandora DOT resnet DOT cornell DOT edu
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: running opendos with win 95
[dd]
>
> > 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".
>
It is documented feature of DOS box - available from early versions of OS/2.
BTW PC DOS 7.0 reports major version as 7 - not 6 as OD. And i do not think
it causes any troubles.
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