Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Request for boot sector information (PC) Message-ID: <0008.8907241308.AA00452@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 22 Jul 89 15:58:28 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 25 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu In your article <0009.y8907171856.AA19378@ge.sei.cmu.edu> ["Request for boot se ctor information"], you wrote: +--------------- | I need an answer to the following question: | | In the boot sector of every diskette and hard disk there is a short | string starting at the fourth byte. This string contains information | about the version of DOS used to format the disk/diskette. | Typically it is something like "IBM 3.0" or "MSDOS2.0". | What I need to know is: What other possibilities are there ? +--------------- Out of three versions of DOS available to me, two don't follow this rule: ITT XTra, ITT DOS 2.11: "ITT 2.0 " Wyse PC DOS 3.2: "PC & AT^@" Altos 500 MS-DOS 3.3: "MSDOS3.3" ++Brandon - --- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@NCoast.ORG uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser (Send inquiries to rhg@NCoast.ORG, *not* to me! I'm just the resident guru.) * "ncoast" regenerates again! The 5th "ncoast", coming August 1 (stay tuned) *