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From: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: SysEnvirons and systemVersion
Message-ID: <5692@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 89 13:39:02 GMT
Reply-To: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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I have a quick question to do with the SysEnvirons function and how to
interpret the system version from it.

I can get all the information from SysEnvirons I need, except an explicit
system version number.  What I get returned is an integer.  What I need to
know, is how do I relate this to a particular version of the system.

For example, systemVersion returns 1538 when run on a release 6.0.2.  Do I
then have to manually say, well since it's 1538 it must be 6.0.2?  If so
where is there a list of previous "system numbers".

Basically, am I missing something here..?  Is there a better way to
determine what system is running, than SysEnvirons?

As an aside to this, how does one determine the finder version also?

Stu.

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