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Re:Windows 3.x looks for 3 occurrences of “CON” 59 bytes apart by tinus_hn on Sunday June 30, 2019 @10:22AM (#20318324)
Is this perhaps one of the tricks Microsoft used to ‘accidentally’ make DR-DOS incompatible with Windows?
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Re:Windows 3.x looks for 3 occurrences of “CON” 59 bytes apart by NikkiA on Monday July 01, 2019 @02:49PM (#20328460)
The AARD code specifically references SFT manipulation and testing, so I'm going to go with 'yes, this is probably exactly the anti-DR-DOS code'
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