DOS ain't dead - How to detect FreeDOS kernel from Turbo Pascal program?

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

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 15.01.2022, 11:09
(edited by Laaca on 15.01.2022, 11:23)

The DOS call proposed by McEric certainly works but I recommend to use a shell call. The "ver" command is reliable and the format should be standardised even through various alternate command interpretters.

Firstly call simply "ver".
Then, if it contains string "FREECOM" (after capitalization) call "ver /r" and analyse the output.

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