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From: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO Unix vs OpenDesktop
Keywords: SCO Unix, Open Desktop
Message-ID: <303@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US>
Date: 22 Jan 91 21:10:14 GMT
References: <8@dobie.UUCP> <1991Jan14.023928.2439@ee.rochester.edu> <204@raysnec.UUCP> <1991Jan18.191137.3540@cmllab.rgb.sub.org>
Reply-To: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
Organization: Amateur Radio Station N4HGF
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In article <1991Jan18.191137.3540@cmllab.rgb.sub.org> macleod@cmllab.rgb.sub.org (Connor MacLeod) writes:
>BTW: the official release of the latest SCO UNIX is 3.2v2.
>                                                    ^^^^^
>     This is because the 'old' 3.2.0 lied when asked about the version
>     with 'uname -a' (3.2 2)...

I think the 'v' is to avoid confusion.

struct utsname {
	char	release[9];		== "3.2" i.e, S5R3.2
	char	version[9];     == "2"   i.e., S5R3 minor version -->2<--
	char	machine[9];		== "i386"
	.
	. [deleted]
	.
};

There is, alas, poor agreement, conflicting 'standards', and mixed
history on the use of these fields.  There was a good discussion on
this subject somewhere on the net recently.
 
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