Re: st: Programming a version-number check

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 03:59 PM 9/25/2005, Mark Schaffer wrote:
> Using -findfile- to get the path to the ado, opening the ado with -file-,
> and then messing about with file i/o is unappealing, though I suppose it
> could be made to work.  Is there anything easier?
>
> --Mark
One additional complication is that there is nothing that says an ado 
file has to use the same version number throughout, e.g. different 
subroutines could use different version numbers.  Would you need to 
track all of them, the highest one, the lowest one, or what?


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