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- From: Nick Christie <nick.christie@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Buggering bollocks! A bug!
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 13:55:05 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University Computing Services
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- wfblan@netcom.com (Rob Bamford) wrote:
- >Seems that the 'version' command is a bit flawed.
- >If you check the version of a program it comes up with the proper version
- >number. However, if you then go to a different disk and check another but
- >different version of the same file it shows the first version number again.
-
- When you check a system file like a library, the version command
- reports the version of the library already loaded in memory. If
- the library isn't already loaded, the version command loads it.
- This is necessary as libraries generally don't have the usual
- $VER identifier buried in them, they keep their version information
- in a special library data structure.
-
- If you add the FILE switch to the version command, it won't load
- the library, only search for the $VER string. However, many older
- libraries have no such version id in them and simply report "No
- version found".
-
- >[...] This is a pretty big boo-boo! Fix it!! Thanks!
-
- This is explained in the AmigaDOS manual. Read it! You're welcome.
-
- Nick
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