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From: MAC.ROMOS@applelink.apple.com (Ian Hendry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: SysEnvirons and systemVersion
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Date: 12 May 89 17:09:31 GMT
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In article <13443@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu 
(Earle R. Horton) writes:
> >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.


Not quite.  As I understand the major is the high byte, the minor the high 
nibble of the low byte and the revision number is the low nibble of the
low byte.  That is, $0614 is the version "6.1.4", NOT "6.20" ($14 == 20).

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