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From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
To: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no>
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Subject: Re: Determining FreeBSD versions
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On Tue, Jul 01, 1997 at 02:43:43PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote:
>> 
>> Is there a better way to reliably distinguish between versions,
>> particularly the vintage of one of the "-STABLE" versions?  The imake
>> config allows these version parameters to be manually overriden, and
>> that's what I'm doing for now.  It would be good if the auto-detect
>> mechanism could be made to work in this case though.  I don't mind so
>> much about -CURRENT, since that's known to be more of a moving target.
>
>/usr/include/osreldate.h should be fairly easy to parse, and give very
>good data, especially after the format was fixed :)

OK, I think that will do what I need.

David