Re: Reverse engineering the Windows TCP stack

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James Longstreet wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Tim wrote:
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> > Last I read, the license requires credit be given where credit is due.
> > Maybe I missed it, but I haven't ever seen that credit be given in the
> > documentation shipped with Windoze.
> >    
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> I don't know if it's credit per se, but I just ran strings on XP's
> finger.exe:
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> > <snip>
> > s_perror
> > MSWSOCK.dll
> > @(#) Copyright (c) 1980 The Regents of the University of California.
> > All rights reserved.
> >    
>
> I've done it with ftp.exe and a few others as well, I'd imagine most of
> those utilities were borrowed from BSD.
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Hello,

I was curious about this.

on win2k :

C:\WINNT\system32>strings *.exe | grep -i university

C:\WINNT\system32>strings *.exe | grep -i california
C:\WINNT\system32\finger.exe: @(#) Copyright (c) 1980 The Regents of the 
University of California.
C:\WINNT\system32\FTP.EXE: @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the 
University of California.
C:\WINNT\system32\NSLOOKUP.EXE: @(#) Copyright (c) 1985,1989 Regents of 
the University of California.
C:\WINNT\system32\rcp.exe: @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the 
University of California.
C:\WINNT\system32\rsh.exe: @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the 
University of California.

C:\WINNT\system32>

on XP :

C:\WINDOWS\system32>strings *.exe | grep -i university

C:\WINDOWS\system32\finger.exe: @(#) Copyright (c) 1980 The Regents of 
the University of California.
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ftp.exe: @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the 
University of California.
C:\WINDOWS\system32\nslookup.exe: @(#) Copyright (c) 1985,1989 Regents 
of the University of California.
C:\WINDOWS\system32\rcp.exe: @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the 
University of California.
C:\WINDOWS\system32\rsh.exe: @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the 
University of California.
C:\WINDOWS\system32\vmnetdhcp.exe: $Id: inet_addr.c,v 1.1.1.1 1999/11/22 
00:57:05 edward Exp $ Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1993 The Regents of the 
University of California.  All rights reserved.


C:\WINDOWS\system32>

Have a nice day.

Spencer
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