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From: ndd@SUNBAR.MC.DUKE.EDU (Ned Danieley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: identifying version of R3?
Message-ID: <8902201831.AA07514@sunbar.mc.duke.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 89 18:31:56 GMT
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>> Is there any way to tell what patches might have been applied
>> to a given instance of the R3 sources?
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>Not beyond asking the person who maintains your sources.
>
>If you are comparing two versions of a particular file, you can look at the
>RCS keyword $XConsortium (we use it instead of $Header).

Unfortunately, I am the person who maintains my sources!

What I was trying to do was decide which patches had been applied
to the sources that I got from a local machine (unfortunately, their
source person wasn't sure). I finally just looked at the id of a
couple of files in the patches, and guessed that way.

Shouldn't there be some overall version.h, or something, that could
reflect version releases and the application of official patches?

ned