Re: Version Number Confusion

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From: Ken Badertscher
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1989 22:19

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In article <8906121449.AA01174@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET writes:
| Don't forget that many people only have a monochrome monitor. :-)

Indeed... ;-)

| Does anyone ever check there ??  I doubt it.  Since Atari documented Sversion()
| as "the OS version call" (and the IBM equivalent *does* return the current OS
| version number), many people relied on that call.

Honk.  Wrong... Sversion is documented as follows:

  "Return GEMDOS's (sic) version number (in byte-reversed format)....
   GEMDOS version numbers and TOS version numbers are *not* one and the same."

Thanks for your support.


-- 
   |||   Ken Badertscher  (ames!atari!kbad)
   |||   Atari R&D System Software Engine
  / | \  #include <disclaimer>

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From: kbad@atari.UUCP (Ken Badertscher)
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Subject: Re: Version Number Confusion
Summary: Sversion returns GEMDOS version number (again)
Message-ID: <1561@atari.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 22:19:19 GMT
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