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From: naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Finding the version of OpenWindows
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Date: 24 Jul 90 23:56:11 GMT
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In article <28176@pprg.unm.edu>, siegel@pprg.unm.edu (Josh Siegel) writes:
|> 
|> Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
|> Subject: Re: Finding xnews version outside xnews?
|> 
|> 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.

This should do the trick... (older versions may not need the -init.)

xnews -init "
	/currentpacking false def
	/setpacking { pop } def
	(NeWS/basics.ps) (r) file cvx exec
	version =
	shutdownserver
"

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