VPIX compatability questions
D'Arcy J.M. Cain
darcy at druid.uucp
Mon Jan 28 10:21:12 AEST 1991
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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