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From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Getting Kickstart version
Message-ID: <22496@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 13:21:13 GMT
References: <3646@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <3646@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> jpotter@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Jonathan Potter) writes:
>How do I find out what version of Kickstart is running, in an OS friendly way?
>Under 1.3, location $fc000c contains it, but this doesn't work under 2.0.
>
>Please mail replies if you can help. Thanks.

Well, from the source code to workbench, here is what I do:

(Oh, it does not work in 1.3 but does in 2.0 so you should check if
 exec is V36 or better first...)

/*
 * AboutWorkbench
 *
 * This routine puts up the requester when About is selected...
 */
void AboutWorkbench(void)
{
struct Library *lib;
struct EasyStruct es = {sizeof(struct EasyStruct),NULL,SystemWorkbenchName,NULL,NULL};
ULONG args[11];

    args[6]=~0;
    args[7]=0;
    if (lib = (struct Library *)OPENLIBRARY("version.library", 0))
    {
        args[6] = lib->lib_Version;
        args[7] = lib->lib_Revision;
        CLOSELIBRARY(lib);
    }

    es.es_TextFormat=VersionFormat;
    es.es_GadgetFormat=Quote(Q_OK_TEXT);
    args[0]=(ULONG)KickstartName;
    args[1]=args[5]=(ULONG)Quote(Q_VERSION_TITLE);
    args[2]=SysBase->lib_Version;			/* Kickstart version */
	/* This next line only works if args[2] >= 36 */
    args[3]=((struct ExecBase *)SysBase)->SoftVer;	/* Kickstart revision */
    args[4]=(ULONG)SystemWorkbenchName;
    /* args[5]=args[1]; */
    /* args[6]=version */
    /* args[7]=revision */
    args[8]=(ULONG)Copyright;
    args[9]=(ULONG)Copyright2;
    args[10]=(ULONG)Copyright3;
    EasyRequestArgs(WbBASE->wb_BackWindow,&es,NULL,args);
}

			-- Mike

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