TITLE

   Version

VERSION

   40.1  (bug removed)

AUTHOR

   Urs Eprecht
   
   EMail: not yet (but you can EMail to me: fsteinfe@iiic.ethz.ch)

DESCRIPTION

   This is a patch/replacement for the original c:version command.
   It had a nasty bug: If the last four bytes of a file contained
   a $ sign, the version command went into an endless loop.
   The new version command contains a work aournd for this
   problem: It internally reduces the file size by four bytes.
   This is save as the last four bytes can't contain a complete
   version string.
   The workaround code requires 14 bytes. They were gained by
   shortening the text: 
     "This disk requires Kickstart version 2.04 or greater"
   to
     "Kickstart 2.04 or greater required"
   This was much easier than increasing the file size.

USAGE

   To apply the patch, enter
   
   spatch -oc:version.new -pversion.pch c:version
   rename c:version c:version.old
   rename c:version.new c:versioin
   
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

   Required:
      c:version command with the size of 4764 bytes and version
      number 40.1

AVAILABILITY

   Aminet
     ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/aminet/util/shell/version.lha

PRICE

   Free

DISTRIBUTABILITY

   Distributed as freeware.

   The version command is Copyrigth by the owner of AmigaOS
   The patch is Copyright by Urs Eprecht

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[generic]                 9285   14636  63.4% -lh5- e89d Feb  6  1998 version/spatch
[generic]                  191     196  97.4% -lh5- 714a Mar 31  1997 version/version.pch
[generic]                  748    1483  50.4% -lh5- ab90 Feb  6  1998 version/version.readme
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