10 Aug
1998
10 Aug
'98
9:26 p.m.
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, John Higginbotham wrote:
Why not just run... What's that DOS program that
fakes out apps to make
them think they are running on another version of DOS? I'm drawing a blank
here, but I did use it one time to make Windows 2.03 think it was running
under DOS 3.3 when it was actually running on DOS 6.0. Worked great. The
command is documented in the DOS help file, 5.0 and up, IIRC.
Are you thinking of SETVER perhaps? If so, I didn't know you could use
that to fake programs into thinking you are running a particular version
of DOS.
Well, I just checked the help files in DOS 6.22 and sho'nuff, you can use
SETVER to trick a program into thinking its running under DOS x.yz. First
you must load SETVER in your CONFIG.SYS file, then you use the SETVER
command from the command line to specify the DOS version to report to the
specific program you are running. Neat.
But I don't know if this would solve the original guy's problem. Perhaps
the pill dispensing program does direct calls into DOS 2.11 and bypasses
the BIOS?
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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