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- From: rseichter@darkness.gun.de (Ralph Seichter)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Library revisions....
- Message-ID: <zpd8aNpUdD@darkness.gun.de>
- Organization: DARKNESS Public Mailbox, Kerpen, Germany
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:14:00 +0100
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- pochanay@cae.wisc.edu (Adisak Pochanayon) wrote
-
- > Could someone post or e-mail me a list of all the library revisions and
- > the OS that's being run. I want to be able to check for 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.X,
- > 2.0,2.04,2.1,3.0, etc.
-
- Although I surely don't want to intercept your request, I'd like to know
- why exactly you want to check for 1.X ,2.Y, 3.Z or others. I consider it a
- wise thing to open the minimum version required for each library and not to
- open all libs with e.g. V38 (in case you need locale.library support).
-
- I myself already had some trouble. A program of mine, designed for OS 2.04,
- opened all libs with a version number of 37L, even the diskfont.library. I
- didn't realize that C= shipped two diskfont.libs (a small 36.x plus V37.58
- which supports outline fonts) with their OS 2.04 package. That small
- glitch caused a lot of mourning, people would say "you call your program OS
- 2.04 compatible but it doesn't run on my machine wich uses OS 2.04". I had
- a *hard* time explaining this, especially because there was absolutely no
- need to insist on a diskfont.lib V37 (there are no new features anyway if
- you don't use outline fonts).
-
- Thus you'll find me now very picky with opening libraries. I always check
- out the functions I use and open the first version of each library which
- offers all functions required. I learned *my* lesson! :)
-
- MfG, Ralph
- --
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- and only the sound of Ed's football game now emanated from the living room.
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