VPIX compatability questions

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

In article <392 at 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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