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From: dave@westmark.WESTMARK.COM (Dave Levenson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: VPIX compatability questions
Message-ID: <2546@westmark.WESTMARK.COM>
Date: 21 Jan 91 03:00:03 GMT
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In article <1991Jan17.041520.24159@tmsoft.uucp>, mshiels@tmsoft.uucp (Michael A. Shiels) writes:

> Is there a way to detect you are running inside of VPix?

You could try to write to a file in the root filesystem.
You'll be allowed if you're in real MS-DOS, and not if you're under
VP/ix, unless VP/ix was invoked by root.


Anybody know a better way?

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