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Re: finding version numbers

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From: Dave Griffiths
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:29
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In article <1992Dec8.145024.23485@fnbc.com> drew@fnbc.com writes:
>In article <1992Dec8.024303.29691@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> lebay@mercury.cl.msu.edu  
>(Jim LeBay) writes:
>> How can my program find out which version of NeXTStep it's running 
>> under?  The only thing I've found so far is to call the Mach function  
>> host_kernel_version() and parse the return string.  But is the Mach  
>> kernel version number always the same as the NeXTStep version number?
>
>One crude solution, if you want to find out just the revision level of  
>NeXTSTEP, is to look in /usr/lib/NextStep/software_version.
>

That file doesn't exist on my 2.0 system!

BTW, are developers out there trying to maintain software that will run on 
both 2.x and 3.0, or is the feeling that everyone will eventually upgrade?

I was thinking of trying to maintain common source for both 2.x and 3.0 
versions of the app I'm writing - is there any point?

Dave Griffiths
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From: dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths)
Subject: Re: finding version numbers
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