Having previously appointed myself SCO Director of Acronyms http://www.cruzio.com/sco/ and keeper of the mysterious OSR5 BTLD naming conventions, I'll now declare myself MOSCOVA (Minister Of SCO Version Archaeology) and prepare a list of the last known versions of various dead SCO products, and the secret incantations necessary to determine if one really has that version. Please consider this a chain letter and forward it to any likely conspirators with useful information. The last person in the chain gets stuck with turning this into a TA. =========================================================== Version info: SCO has many ways of identifying products and displaying version information. Some of them actually agree. 1. Read the disk, tape or cd label. 2. tar tvf /dev/install | grep "#rel" 3. swconfig 4. grep "^#rel=" /etc/perms/* 5. uname -a (old Xenix 286 only) 6. uname -X | grep -y "rel" (OS only) I suggest: cd /etc/perms grep "^#rel=" * | tr ":" "\011" and: swconfig to get a shopping list. If you have floppy images that are not easily identified, try: strings image_file | grep "rel=" to extract the "custom" info line. If the image is compressed, run: zcat imagefile.Z | strings | grep "rel=" There are also various names for the same products. For example: xnx296a, UFN and prd=xos are all the same. Obtaining serial number information, and identifying cdroms without proper labels, will be covered seperately. ========== XENIX 286 ONLY =================== Name Last Version Incantation SCO Xenix 286 2.3.2 uname -a DevSys 286 2.2.1 grep "^#rel=" /etc/perms/devsys CGI 286 grep "^#rel=" /etc/perms/cgi Text Processing System grep "^#rel=" /etc/perms/text Eroff 2.0 VP/IX 286 MultiView 286 Man Pages Games 2.2.2 grep "^#rel=" /etc/perms/games Fox (dbase 2 clone) MSBASIC 5.41 Appears on startup screen. MultiPlan 3.00N MS Word 3.0 ========== XENIX 386 ONLY =================== SCO Xenix 386 2.3.4 uname -X | grep -y "rel" Tandy Xenix 386 Unisys Xenix 386 DevSys 386 2.3.0 grep "^#rel=" /etc/perms/devsys Text Processing Sys Man Pages 2.2.0 ???? grep "^#rel=" /etc/perms/man Games TCP/IP 1.2.0 grep "^#rel=" /etc/perms/tcprt Streams runtime 1.0.0c grep "^#rel=" /etc/perms/streamsrt Xenix-Net UniPATH SNA-3270 Xsight for Xenix 2.0.0 Xsight for DOS 2.0.0 Xsight 386 complete 5.0.0 SCO Office Portfolio 2.0.1 SCO Manager 2.1 Multiview Runtime 1.6 ???? SCO Professional 2.1 grep "^#rel=" /etc/perms/pro SCO Lyrix 6.1 Integra 1.1.1 Foxbase+ 2.1.2 Appears on startup screen. HCR/SCO C++ 3.0.0 SCO C++ 3.1.0 SCO Accell VP/IX 1.2.0 grep "^#rel=" /etc/perms/vpix MS Word 3.0 ImageBuilder MasterPlan Statistician Eroff 3.0 MS C 3.0 MS Basic Interpreter 5.41 Appears on startup. MS Basic Compiler MS Pascal Compiler MS Fortran Compiler 3.0 LPI-Fortran 3.20.00 LPI-Basic LPI-Cobol LPI-Pascal LPI-PL/I LPI-RPG II LPI-Debug SCO PHIGS 1.0.0 ========== UNIX (ODT) ONLY =================== SCO Unix 3.2v4.2 uname -X | grep -y "rel" TCP/IP 1.2.1 LLI 3.4.0 DevSys 3.2.4.2 TCP/IP Dev Sys 1.2.1 Games 3.2.2 NFS Sys 1.1.1d NFS Dev Sys 1.1.1c Xsight 386 4.0.0 Xsight 386 Dev 4.0.0 ========== Third Party =================== JTAPE for Xenix 386 2.55 grep "^#rel=" /etc/perms/jt JTAPE for Unix 3.2 2.6 grep "^#rel=" /etc/perms/jt (No JTAPE available for 286 or OSR5).