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- From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
- Subject: Re: Syslevel (was Re: Can I *PLEASE* get a fast COMM driver that &^$#* works!?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.214955.10909@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>
- Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science
- References: <kucTXB1w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca> <1993Jan24.172609.18386@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan25.170519.5317@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU> <1993Jan25.192723.28037@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:49:55 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.192723.28037@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> azzarito@cse.fau.edu (Doug Azzarito) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.170519.5317@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU> jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin) writes:
- >>Why can't IBM have a syslevel directory, whose location is stored in the
- >>os2sys.ini, or something similar? Just a suggestion...
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- >SYSLEVEL's job is to check each file, and determine if the file is a product
- >with specific release info in it. It's the equivalent of greping your
- >entire disk. What would a SYSLEVEL directory do? I want to look at the
- >actual executable and see what release it is.
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- But they don't actually look at the executable, or so it seems. It's in a
- file SYSLEVEL.xxx. So why not dump it all into one place?
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- Jeff
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