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1.1       root        1: Unfortunately the two methods this applications relies
                      2: on to tell what platform it is running in did not make
                      3: it into the current build of NT at the time this sample
                      4: needed to be frozen.
                      5: 
                      6: Therefore please use this sample as a guide as how things
                      7: will be. In particular *all* Win32 applications will need
                      8: to use GetVersion() to tell whether it's on the Win32s or
                      9: Win32. GetVersion() will set the high bit of the high word
                     10: if it's running on Win32s.
                     11: 
                     12: Win16 applications will be able to tell whether there are
                     13: running on Win32/NT or Win16/MS-DOS by exmaining the flags
                     14: return by GetWinFlags() a unique manifest constant will
                     15: be returned if it's running in the WOW layer.

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