I've never wanted to do this. It's adoable, by e.g.
using -file- to process the file identified by -which-.
I've encountered many programs with no *! lines
and a few with several. After all, programmers are
only advised to include such lines, so many, especially
less experienced programmers, don't do it; while occasionally
programmers want to exploit the fact that -which- echoes
such lines.
Nick
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> Has anyone ever wanted to program an ado file that inspected
> the version of
> another program.
> If only the -which- command inspected the *! lines and
> stripped out the
> version number.
>
> Perhaps there should be a set of standard *! lines at the start of an
> adofile to help with this.
>
> e.g.
> *! Version : 1.42
> Then -which- could give the version number in the return list.
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