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- From: Alan Peter Suggitt <sug@apsayton.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
- Subject: Re: How do verion numbers work?
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 96 13:49:21 BST
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- Michael (shotgun@slip.net) wrote:
- [Lots more about Version Numbers...]
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- You are still thinking in terms of decimal fractions, the version
- string used by system programs contains a shorthand notation so
- different versions and revisions can be recognised easily.
-
- With his shorthand notation the version number and revision number are
- written down as two integer numbers separated by a period. Because you
- do not normally add leading zeros to an integer there should be no
- zeros before the revision number after the period.
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- This is because it would not be possible to recall all the earlier versions
- to add the extra zeros when the revision number changes from 9 to 10,
- 99 to 100 or 999 to 1000 etc.
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- Sug
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