Article ID: 96383
Article Last Modified on 11/22/1999
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.2 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.21 Standard Edition
- Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q96383
SYMPTOMS
The AddStor compression information utility, SSUTIL, incorrectly reports the following information about MS-DOS version 6.0:
VERSION is MS-DOS 5.0
REPORTED version is 6.0
CAUSE
SSUTIL looks at the boot record signature to determine the version of MS-DOS. It then calls the GetMSDOSVersion() function to determine the reported version number.
Because the boot record signature is the same for MS-DOS 5.0 and MS-DOS 6.0, SSUTIL incorrectly reports the version number.
NOTE: The incorrect version number detection does not cause any problems or incompatibilities between MS-DOS 6.x and the AddStor utility.
Additional query words: 6.22 6.00 6.20
Keywords: KB96383
