Re: Syslevel (was Re: Can I *PLEASE* get a fast COMM driver that &^$#* works!?) - Article 16066 - go-pugleaf

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Re: Syslevel (was Re: Can I PLEASE get a fast COMM driver that &^$#* works!?)

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From: Jeff Urlwin
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:49

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In article <1993Jan25.192723.28037@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> azzarito@cse.fau.edu (Doug Azzarito) writes:
>In article <1993Jan25.170519.5317@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU> jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin) writes:
>>Why can't IBM have a syslevel directory, whose location is stored in the
>>os2sys.ini, or something similar?  Just a suggestion...
>
>SYSLEVEL's job is to check each file, and determine if the file is a product
>with specific release info in it.  It's the equivalent of greping your
>entire disk.  What would a SYSLEVEL directory do?  I want to look at the
>actual executable and see what release it is.

But they don't actually look at the executable, or so it seems.  It's in a
file SYSLEVEL.xxx.  So why not dump it all into one place?

Jeff









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From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
Subject: Re: Syslevel (was Re: Can I *PLEASE* get a fast COMM driver that &^$#* works!?)
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