The compulsion against boredom often leads to doing things the long or hard way, or sometimes both. Rather than boot up my 1200 or 2000, I decided to take a look at the mysterious Boing Bag 2 update and the AmigaOS-Update. 7-Zip opens the file easily, and even opens the Update file, but extraction requires a password.
A quick Yahoo! search turns up that it is indeed password-protected, though it can be found using myriad password recovery tools. Also mentioned is that the updater has a look at a few files on the 3.9 CD to dig up a password. This lead me to do some extremely rudimentary sleuthing.
A couple of passes of free recovery tools turned up nothing (trials are limited.) I looked at the Installer to see the reference to c/Updater. I dumped c/Updater to a hex editor to see the references to the media files, but also a syntax help.
Executing c/Updater ? returns two arguments: updatefile/a targetdir/a. So me brain turns just a little bit, puts my original 3.9 CD in the drive (yes, I did that with my brain,) and works up this command
c/Updater RAM:BoingBag3.9-2/AmigaOS-Update RAM:BB2
And voila. A dump of the Boing Bag 2 AmigaOS-Update file, including the elusive RAWBinfo v1.35.
Scout reports my system at BB2, but obviously something screwy has happened along the way. Maybe as a result of having the same installation move with me all the way from 1.3 through 2.04, 3.1, 3.5, and now landing on 3.9. *sigh* Anyway, makes me wonder how many other files are not up to BB2 level.
Sometime when the groove strikes me I will work up a quick check against the BB2 extract and my existing files to look for differences in versions.