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- From: innuendo@execpc.com (Jonathan Gapen)
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- Subject: Re: How do verion numbers work?
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 06:35:05 GMT
- Organization: esCom Amiga Madison Enthusiast's Organisation
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- In article <Pine.SOL.3.92.960407011332.3678C-100000@slip-3.slip.net> Michael <shotgun@slip.net> writes:
- >
- > If this is the case then there are more people doing the version numbers
- > wrong then are doing it right.
- >
- > "Any company or programmer that knows anything about software production
- > realizes that if double digits are to be used to right of the decimal
- > point (and should be), then they must remain consistent through-out. So
- > any product that has version 1.25 must use either version 1.09 or 1.90 to
- > avoid confusion".
- >
- > "If a company or programmer is stupid enough to have inconsistently used
- > both a single digit and a double digit to the right of the decimal point,
- > then in this example, v1.9 would be considered v1.90 and thus newer than
- > v1.25".
-
- As I pointed out in my reply to the original query, Amiga version strings
- don't use decimal points, they use periods. There's a difference:
- $12.95 -> dollar value using decimal point
- 156.46.88.37 -> IP address using periods
- When talking about Amiga version strings, you say "one DOT nine" or "one
- DOT two-five." The RKRMs are very specific on this point.
-
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- Jonathan Gapen (innuendo@execpc.com)
- Bread in, toast out. How does it DO that?
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