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How to detect FreeDOS kernel from Turbo Pascal program? (Developers)

posted by Oso2k, 15.01.2022, 00:24

> Hello,
>
> I am looking for a method of detection of running FreeDOS kernel from Turbo
> Pascal compiled program. Because under FreeDOS various shells can be loaded
> (for example FreeCOM can be replaced by 4DOS) this cannot be a method
> referring to simple shell call. What I need is to find if my Pascal program
> runs under FreeDOS kernel, regardless of the command interpreter used.
>
> For now I use ugly and dirty code of type "if exist {boot
> drive}\kernel.sys then RunningUnderFreeDOS" but this ugliness fails
> miserably when multiboot (and multikernel) configuration is working because
> while kernel.sys is present, it doesn't mean it is loaded.


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