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- From: innuendo@execpc.com (Jonathan Gapen)
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- Subject: Re: How do verion numbers work?
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 07:55:07 GMT
- Organization: esCom Amiga Madison Enthusiast's Organisation
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- In article <249.6661T1196T2723@idirect.com> boisvert@idirect.com (Sebastien Boisvert) writes:
- > I've been using my Amiga for a long while now, but I'm still not sure how
- > version numbers work. Is version 1.23 version of a program more recent than
- > 1.9? If so, I've been replacing a lot of libraries and such with older
- > versions! :-\
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- As I've read it, in the version string inside the binary, the number before
- the period should be the minimum OS version that the program/library/device
- requires, with the revision number after the period. And yes, 1.23 usually
- would be later than 1.9, as the period is not a decimal point.
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- Jonathan Gapen (innuendo@execpc.com)
- Bread in, toast out. How does it DO that?
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