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On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> Therefore the solution would be to use the 'mickeys' driver under Win2k and
> the 'polling' driver under WinNT4. Unfortunately, although the guys from
> comp.os.msdos.djgpp have been trying to find it for more than one year,
> there is currently *no* way of telling Win2k from WinNT4 in a DOS program.
>
> So we're apparently stuck.
> Any suggestion ?
allegro successfully detects if NT is installed by checking if the environment
variable OS == "Windows_NT". Can you check what int 0x2f,
ax=0x160a returns in ax, bx and cx for windows nt 4 and windows 2000? that's
the only thing i can think of for the moment. this works at least on windows
3.1 and up to windows ME. for reference check ralph brown's interrupt list.
there should also be a somewhat undocumented VxD call in NTKERN for returning
NT kernel version. (int 0x20, vxd=0x004b)
should i code a test program?
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Sincerely Henrik Stokseth.
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