Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!lethe!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: VPIX compatability questions
Message-ID: <1991Jan27.232112.6299@druid.uucp>
Date: 27 Jan 91 23:21:12 GMT
References: <1991Jan17.041520.24159@tmsoft.uucp> <2546@westmark.WESTMARK.COM> <392@bria>
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <392@bria> uunet!bria!mike (Michael Stefanik) writes:
>Yes, and it depends on what context.  If you're a DOS program and you
>want to determine if you're in a VP/ix environment, just have that
>program try to create a temporary file on the C: disk.  Since VP/ix
>requires that pseudo-disk to be read-only (if you're going to boot from

That isn't necessarily true.  VP/ix gives you the option when installing
user's of giving the user their own copy of C:.  In that case the program
can write to it as well as read it.

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