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Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 20:57:43 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: DJGPP newsgroup <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Win2k vs Win NT4
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Hello.

Laurynas Biveinis wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 04:19:57PM +0000, Martin Stromberg wrote:
> > Perhaps having the user "set WIN2000=1" or something similar would be
> > acceptable? The user should know if he's running WINDOZE 2000 or not,
> > right?
> 
> But this is one of the most unreliable ways, isn't it?

Well, if you're setting DJGPP anyway, you could add WIN2000 too. This
could be added to the instructions for installing DJGPP.

AFAIK DJGPP programs currently run without any environment variables being
set, as long as they can find a DPMI server. If Win2k must be detected,
then relying on environment variable is not a very good solution, since I
imagine that most users will forget to set it, leading to FAQs.

Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com> http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ 

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