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From: siegel@pprg.unm.edu (Josh Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Finding the version of OpenWindows
Message-ID: <28176@pprg.unm.edu>
Date: 23 Jul 90 23:51:04 GMT
Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Finding xnews version outside xnews?
Summary: no version primitive
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References: <1990Jul22.135206.455@postmaster@turing.ac.uk>
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Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
Keywords: hack, version, primitive


In article <1990Jul22.135206.455@postmaster@turing.ac.uk> rudolf@morlich.turing.ac.uk (Jim Rudolf) writes:
>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

version is defined in (NeWS/basics.ps) and is not a PostScript
primitive.

>
>Using the -init flag and/or double quotes didn't seem to help.
>
>BTW, I'm running OpenWindows1.0.1.
>So my questions are:
> a) Why am I having trouble passing PostScript as an arg to xnews?

OpenWindows 1.0.x does not take a '-init' option

   % xnews '2 2 add =='

OpenWindows 2.x does

   % xnews -init '2 2 add =='

> b) Is there an alternate way to find out the version?

$OPENWINHOME/bin/xnews -help |& grep "-init"

And then look at the status... :-)

You also can:

egrep "^/version" $OPENWINHOME/etc/NeWS/basics.ps | sed -e 's/^.*(\(.*\)).*$/\1/g'

Hope this helps.

>  -- Jim

Josh Siegel
siegel@sun.com
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