VPIX compatability questions

Dave Levenson dave at westmark.WESTMARK.COM
Mon Jan 21 14:00:03 AEST 1991


In article <1991Jan17.041520.24159 at tmsoft.uucp>, mshiels at 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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