4DOS and detecting it

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 12-24-92 (15:38)             Number: 285
From: LUIS ESPINOZA                Refer#: NONE
  To: JEFFERY FOY                   Recvd: NO  
Subj: 4DOS and detecting it          Conf: (2) Quik_Bas

On (21 Dec 92) Jeffery Foy wrote to All...

 JF> I'd like to add 4DOS support in a program that I'm writing. How can
 JF> you
 JF> detect it from BASIC? Is there a special call or something? I thought
 JF> about just looking for 4DOS.COM in the PATH but that seems a bit
 JF> tacky.
 JF>

        Try something like:

          a$=Environ$("COMSPEC")
          if instr(a$,"4DOS") then FFos=1 else FFos=0

                                        Luis


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