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Re: detecting emulation or console windows

From "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm>
Newsgroups alt.os.development, comp.os.msdos.programmer, alt.lang.asm
Subject Re: detecting emulation or console windows
Date 2014-06-01 02:50 -0400
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On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 00:25:00 -0400, Sjouke Burry  
<burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll> wrote:
> On 01.06.14 0:31, Rod Pemberton wrote:

>> Do you guys have any pointers on detecting whether or not code
>> is executing in an emulator or in console window?
>>
>
> Do a system call like:   system("ver > settings.txt")
> then read the settings.txt file, which should tell you
> whether you are in DOS or not.
>

I didn't do a system call.  I doubt that the system call makes
any difference.  I.e., it just respawns a new instance of
command.com etc.  So, I just entered 'ver' at the command line.

DOSBox ver reports:
   "DOSBox version 0.74. Reported DOS version 5.00."

dosemu ver reports the MS-DOS version installed on the
partition that was mounted by dosemu:
   "Windows 98 [Version 4.10.2222]"

Obviously, that has nothing to do with Linux dosemu, which
just provides the console with, not the DOS which is executed.
That is MS-DOS v7.10 which is part of Windows 98/SE.  I.e.,
if I had FreeDOS on a partition and booted it via dosemu,
'ver' should return whatever FreeDOS reports.

So, some emulation will return different results, but other
emulation just returns the results for the installed version
of DOS.


Rod Pemberton

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detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-31 18:31 -0400
  Re: detecting emulation or console windows Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2014-05-31 19:59 -0400
    Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-31 20:54 -0400
      Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-05-31 21:43 -0400
        Re: detecting emulation or console windows "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-06-01 22:48 +0100
          Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-02 00:46 -0400
            Re: detecting emulation or console windows "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-06-02 06:15 +0100
              Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-02 03:21 -0400
                Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-02 03:32 -0400
                Re: detecting emulation or console windows "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-06-02 09:51 +0100
                Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-02 09:27 -0400
                Re: detecting emulation or console windows "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-06-02 17:05 +0100
                Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-02 19:25 -0400
                Re: detecting emulation or console windows "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-06-04 07:55 +0100
                Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-04 03:20 -0400
      Re: detecting emulation or console windows Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2014-06-01 14:03 -0400
        Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-02 00:53 -0400
          Re: detecting emulation or console windows Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2014-06-02 15:55 -0400
            Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-02 19:27 -0400
              Re: detecting emulation or console windows Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2014-06-03 17:00 -0400
  Re: detecting emulation or console windows Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll> - 2014-06-01 06:25 +0200
    Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-01 02:50 -0400
  Re: detecting emulation or console windows "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-06-01 07:53 +0100
    Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-01 04:53 -0400
      Re: detecting emulation or console windows "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-06-01 20:57 +0100
        Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-02 00:48 -0400
      Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-02 03:20 -0400
  Re: detecting emulation or console windows JJ <duh@nah.meh> - 2014-06-02 03:43 +0700
    Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-02 00:34 -0400
    Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-03 07:06 -0400
      Re: detecting emulation or console windows JJ <duh@nah.meh> - 2014-06-03 20:25 +0700
  Re: detecting emulation or console windows "wolfgang kern" <nowhere@never.at> - 2014-06-03 20:52 +0200
  Re: detecting emulation or console windows "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 22:59 +0100
    Re: detecting emulation or console windows CN <qmbmnp3799@pacbell.net> - 2014-06-03 18:39 -0700
      Re: detecting emulation or console windows "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-06-04 07:06 +0100
        Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-04 03:07 -0400
          Re: detecting emulation or console windows "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-06-04 09:16 +0100
  Re: detecting emulation or console windows "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-06-03 23:00 +0100
  Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-10 17:37 -0400
    Re: detecting emulation or console windows Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-11 00:37 +0000
      Re: detecting emulation or console windows "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-07-27 12:11 -0400

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