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LZ-DOS 7.1 (Miscellaneous)

posted by lucho, 19.11.2007, 19:05
(edited by lucho on 19.11.2007, 19:22)

> > Not all the copyright information is removed, though - it still contains this in memory:
> >
> > "MS-DOS Version 7 (C)Copyright 1981-1995 Microsoft Corp Licensed Material
> > - Property of Microsoft All rights reserved"
>
> In case anyone is curious, this is at offset 0x9E15D in memory, and the
> same string is in 0x941C in the original MS-DOS 7.10 IO.SYS.

This is misleading. The string at 9E15Dh must be from COMMAND.COM! For those of us who use 4DOS instead, there is no such string, nowhere in the RAM. For those who are willing to confirm my words, please try my hex-boot disk, load LZ-DOS and examine menory (for example, you can start FM and press Alt-7). Of course, you will find nothing of the sort in memory.

Sorry for breaking my promise not to post here anymore, but such misleading information is really something I can't stand. Do you think that if your theory is correct, the person who managed to pack a kernel in a non-standard format would fail to mention the so obvious copyright string and not remove it? And what about the huge difference between 9E15Dh and 0941Ch?

By the way, we now suspect "sol" is in fact Andreas Grech. His goal is to discredit Jack and me in any possible way but he discredits himself instead.

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