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nathana:
--- Quote from: RTAN on September 24, 2024, 03:45:04 pm ---Do you, or does anyone else, know in what file the "US Government Users" statement resides? I guess I could do a text search across *all* files but I'm not actually sure if it's real text or whether it's part of the boot screen graphic.
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I can confirm, by opening it up in PMView, that C:\OS2LOGO does not contain the text.
Limiting a file content search just to those on the boot diskette reveals that it is contained within OS2LDR.MSG.
--- Code: ---# mount -r -t vfat -o loop ./disk00.img os2disk/
# cd os2disk
# grep -H "US Government" *
Binary file OS2LDR.MSG matches
#
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RTAN:
Good idea, I didn't think to limit the search to just the boot diskettes!
I'm not sure if Archive.org has a non-US copy of those, I'll take a look. Unfortunately most of my copies of OS/2 (any version) are US even though I live in the UK because I've purchased them over the years on eBay. I know I have a Warp 4 (UK) pack, but that doesn't have the same boot logo of course.
nathana:
--- Quote from: RTAN on September 25, 2024, 01:19:31 pm ---I'm not sure if Archive.org has a non-US copy of those, I'll take a look. Unfortunately most of my copies of OS/2 (any version) are US even though I live in the UK because I've purchased them over the years on eBay.
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Every once in a while, I will take a peek at ebay.co.uk just to see what's out there, and still find copies of UK releases on there from time to time. I don't doubt, though, that US releases are far more common in the wild.
OS2LDR.MSG appears to be human-readable versions of various system messages and error codes, and does seem to be localized to the language of the region. Interestingly, it only makes an appearance on the Installation (boot) Diskette and not on Diskette 1, so the whole thing is getting slurped up into RAM at boot (by bootloader, or by kernel?). Haven't dug in deep enough to determine if this file just contains human-readable boot messages, or more than that.
The OS2World.com Wiki appears to have a screenshot of a non-US English (possibly UK) version of Warp 3 on the main page for the article on Warp 3 (right side). The fidelity of that particular screenshot isn't great, but you can at least make out that it's in English but omits the US Government GSA ADP Contract language below the copyright statement.
I downloaded Installation Diskette and Diskette 1 images from this Internet Archive upload of a German Warp 3 copy, and booted them. Here is a screenshot of what the boot screen for this German release looks like. The English copyright statement at the beginning is retained, but an additional German copyright statement is located where the US Government GSA statement is located on the US release.
Conradc1234:
Hi Martin. I was just looking through the OS/2 boxes I have on my shelf and was wondering if pictures from a couple of them would be of any use to you. One is French v 1.30 PN: 70F7416, and the other is German V3 - PN appears to be 28H6733.
I do have quite a few other boxes but they appear to be the standard US/UK releases.
Take care,
Conrad.
Conradc1234:
Just found another one Version 3 again, Dutch this time, labelled CDPak, containing red CD, both Dutch and English installation CDs, and a BonusPak CD. PN: 28H8196.
Conrad.
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