Question about ripcord

So, I discovered RIPCORD last night, the tool that reports the version
numbers of all of the programs on your machine. Got a few questions:

1 - Is it just inspecting the meta-data installed with the packages? If
it is, then isn't that a function which should be rolled into FPKG?
Also, if it is, is it verifying any MD5 or CRC values to make sure that
the binary hasn't been replaced by the user?

2 - I was thinking of writing a little program which would be sort of
like a smart version of STRINGS.EXE (is there a FreeDOS package for
that, by the way?) which would find the strings inside of an EXE or COM
file, select the most "version numbery" of them, and report that. Is
there already a tool that does that?

3 - Is there a way to find out the version of the kernel that's
currently running? I keep a few different kernels as I try to figure out
which one best suits my needs... but I sometimes forget which one I booted.

- Joe


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