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- From: eb15+@andrew.cmu.edu (Edward D. Berger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Fountain
- Message-ID: <cfGjGIK00WB_04Z7ck@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 05:02:44 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.cfGjGIK00WB_04Z7ck
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- Organization: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- When using the version command on libraries, it always returns the version
- of the the library in use, not the version of a file even if you are in the
- libs directory. I would say to use the FILE keyword, but I currently get no
- version string found, when I use that option. Important system libraries
- such as diskfont.library require you to reboot to change versions, since so
- may programs access them. For other libraries, you can just stop all
- processes that use them, and do an "avail flush" command several times to
- force the old libraries out of memory and allow the new version to be loaded
- by the next calling program.
-
- Version 37 is supposed to be on the Fonts disk libs directory, and is not the
- default 2.x library because it too much ram for small (512K-1M) systems, so
- the default version is 36, and the install script asks which version to install
- on HD based systems, which probably have more RAM.
-
- I'd like to see an enhanced version command which would check the current
- directory or given file path, and list both the in-use version and the file
- version for libraries, so we can easily check which version is on a
- distribution disk.
-
- -Ed Berger
- eb15@andrew.cmu.edu
-