SHOW (Gary M. Raymond)

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Name SHOW (Gary M. Raymond)
Ontology
Extension(s) .com
Released 1992

SHOW is a DOS utility for creating a COM file that, when executed, displays a text document in a full-screen viewer. It was developed by Gary M. Raymond and Simple Software.

Identification

COM files made by known versions of the utility start with byte pattern e9 ?? ?? 30 00 1f a0 00 00 'S 'H' 'O' 'W'. Unfortunately, the SHOW.COM program itself may be a false positive for this pattern.

Other identifying features:

  • The byte at offset {3 + {the two-byte integer at offset 1}} is 0xb8.
  • The last byte of the file is 0x1a.

Software

SHOW v2.1 (1995) evidently exists, but hasn't been located.

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