From: ah@doc.ic.ac.uk (Angelo Haritsis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: vuzkern - see inside linux zkernels
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 12:26:52 GMT
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Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Message-ID: <cola-liw-811600012-24109-1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi>


I uploaded vuzkern, a small util for reading compressed kernel info.
I placed it on sunsite's Linux/Incoming/ and expect it to be moved to 
/pub/Linux/system/Misc/. 

vuzkern reads a linux kernel zImage (compressed kernel) and tells you
what version it is and its rdev parameters. It can also display all its
internal strings or an uncompressed binary image of the kernel. Useful
if you keep many zkernels around, as I do, and quickly want to identify
them.

I have tried it with 1.2.x and 1.3.x kernels and it works well. I have
not tried it with ELF kernels but I believe it should work for them also.

Here is the lsm entry for it:

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Title:          vuzkern
Version:        1.0
Entered-date:   18-SEP-95
Description:    perl utility for identifying version and internal data or
		strings of compressed Linux kernels.
		Useful if you have plenty of z-kernels around and want to
		quickly know what their version is and what they include.
		No man page. Run it with no args to see all you need.
Keywords:       kernel, version info
Author:         ah@doc.ic.ac.uk (Angelo Haritsis)
Maintained-by:  ah@doc.ic.ac.uk (Angelo Haritsis)
Primary-site:   sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Misc
		1.5k vuzkern.gz
Platforms:      Linux 1.2.x, 1.3.x tested ok. perl 4 or 5.
Copying-policy: Free & copyrighted.
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Angelo Haritsis

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