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From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: VPIX compatability questions
Message-ID: <1199@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 24 Jan 91 05:21:23 GMT
References: <6025@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> <1991Jan17.041520.24159@tmsoft.uucp> <2546@westmark.WESTMARK.COM>
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In article <2546@westmark.WESTMARK.COM> dave@westmark.WESTMARK.COM (Dave Levenson) writes:
>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.

I'm not sure whether some variants of VP/ix run differently by convention,
but you could often do something like test the existance of z:\unix or z:\xenix.
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