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From: rudolf@morlich.turing.ac.uk (Jim Rudolf)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Finding xnews version outside xnews?
Message-ID: <1990Jul22.135206.455@postmaster@turing.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Jul 90 13:52:06 GMT
Organization: The Turing Institute, Glasgow, Scotland.
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For configuration purposes I'm trying to find out what version
of xnews a machine has from within a shell script.  I tried something
like the following line, but I got an error message voicing xnews's
displeasure:

morlich% xnews 'version ='
Process: 0x1b9094 (Unnamed process)   Error: unimplemented
Stack:
Executing: 'version'
At: Reading file(?,R)
Sic transit gloria PostScript

Using the -init flag and/or double quotes didn't seem to help.  In
fact, I always get the "Sic.." line, for example:

morlich% xnews '2 3 add ='
5
Sic transit gloria PostScript

BTW, I'm running OpenWindows1.0.1.
So my questions are:
 a) Why am I having trouble passing PostScript as an arg to xnews?
 b) Is there an alternate way to find out the version?

Thanks for the help,

  -- Jim
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Jim Rudolf              The Turing Institute              rudolf@turing.ac.uk