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In article <3vb70a$6...@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
   mcar...@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Michael Carmack) wrote:
>T.D. Shadow (tdsh...@airmail.net) wrote:
>: >        1.  Win 3.x less the GUI equals Dos, plain and simple.
>: True.
>: >        2.  Win 95  less the GUI equals Dos, plain and simple.
>: Not quite. Win 95 less the GUI equals Win 95's SAM command line mode.
>
>Pardon my ignorance, but what is a "SAM" command line mode?
>
>[snip snip snip]
>: ...but to call it DOS is just plain wrong. 
>
>Tell that to the OS then...if you ask it for it's version, it calls itself
>MS-DOS 7.0.  Heh heh, I guess it's wrong!  One more bug to report!  ;-)
>
You have no idea do you?

Most Dos programs do a call to test the version of the Dos they are running 
on, if the OS does not return a sensible string to the program, it will not 
run.  This is the *only* reason for the string that says "MS-DOS 7.0" at all. 
They could have, or a hacker could, go in and change the string to read "OS/2 
sucks" and it would not change anything about the OS, or whether or not it was 
dos or windows.  It would not run any dos programs though, because they would 
check for the version string and would not find it.

Also, if you simply type "ver" at the prompt in Win95, you won't get "Dos-7.0" 
but "Win95".  

Jeremy