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Jeremy Bee (b...@sfu.ca) wrote:
: You have no idea do you?

Now you're getting personal.  As if you're posts weren't annoying enough,
now they're pissing me off.

: 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.

I know all about this.  I know a heck of a lot about DOS and programming
in general.  (I sort of work in the business, and by the business, I do
mean the industry.)  Sure, anyone can go in and hack the string to "OS/2
sucks", but what was there originally is what the manufacturer titled the
product.  And they named is MS-DOS 7.  Now, you may not think that this is
a version of MS-DOS, but Microsoft certainly does.  And when it comes to
their products, their opinion on what it should be named counts just a wee
bit more than yours.

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

Ours says "MS-DOS 7.0".  Go figure.
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