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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
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Subject: Re: SysEnvirons and systemVersion
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Date: 11 May 89 16:23:14 GMT
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In article <5692@microsoft.UUCP> stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden) writes:
>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...

     Note that 1538 is equivalent to hex $0602.  The major release
number is in the high byte, and the minor subrelease number is in the
low byte.

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

     This information is in the 'vers' resource of the Finder resource
file.  You can't access it if the Finder is open, i.e. running at the
same time as your application under MultiFinder.  This is because the
Finder resource file is already open in the Finder partition.

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