Re: How do verion numbers work?

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From: Jonathan Gapen
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 07:55

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In article <249.6661T1196T2723@idirect.com> boisvert@idirect.com (Sebastien Boisvert) writes:
> I've been using my Amiga for a long while now, but I'm still not sure how
> version numbers work. Is version 1.23 version of a program more recent than
> 1.9? If so, I've been replacing a lot of libraries and such with older
> versions! :-\

   As I've read it, in the version string inside the binary, the number before
the period should be the minimum OS version that the program/library/device
requires, with the revision number after the period.  And yes, 1.23 usually
would be later than 1.9, as the period is not a decimal point.

-- 
Jonathan Gapen (innuendo@execpc.com)
Bread in, toast out. How does it DO that?

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