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In message <52bea1646bcvjazz@waitrose.com>
          Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> wrote:

> In article <mpro.m8n5uv00a5rx8004m@ypical.nospam.invalid>,
>    Fred Bambrough <fred@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
>> In message <52be0adc72chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net>
>>      Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> wrote:

>>> Well my Iyonix certainly has the backup directory there. It may be
>>> created by the Configure>Sysmerge tool, which may keep copies of the
>>> older versions when it upgrades !System. In the same way the Boot
>>> merge tool keeps a backup in !Boot.Backup.

>> That's correct. Version numbers added to the filenames.

> Oooh! Yes. So they are.

> Curiously, in the 500 Back up dir I have DDEUtils 164 but my newer version
> 1.73 is in the main 310 dir. I'm too thick to follow the logic of this. Hmmm!

There is no need for end users to understand this. It is all sorted 
out automatically by the system merge tool and by the way software 
vendors set up the skeleton !System directories they distribute.

Supposing you start with DDEUtils 1.64 in the 500 directory, for 
whatever reason, and you then want to upgrade version 1.73, which 
comes in the 310 directory only. Simply upgrading the copy in the 310 
directory would not have any effect on a RISC OS 5 machine because it 
would still see the old copy of 1.64 in the 500 directory first. The 
only way to do that upgrade is to remove the old copy of version 1.64 
from 500. It was either put there in error or it was part of a 
distribution that had separate versions for RISC OS 3 and 5. 
Apparently, the 1.73 distribution did not have a copy in 500, which 
indicates that it is considered suitable for all versions of RISC OS, 
so the outdated RO5-specific copy is no longer needed.

-- 
Martin
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Martin Wuerthner         MW Software      http://www.mw-software.com/
        RISC OS Software for Design, Printing and Publishing
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clib & RISC OS 4.39 Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2012-08-11 08:06 +0100
  Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@davenoise.co.uk> - 2012-08-11 10:57 +0100
  Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-08-11 13:19 +0200
    Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-08-11 15:06 +0100
      Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-08-11 15:18 +0100
        Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-08-11 16:15 +0100
          Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-08-11 16:48 +0100
            Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-08-11 23:38 +0100
              Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-08-12 11:43 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Fred Bambrough <fred@[127.0.0.1]> - 2012-08-12 13:11 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-08-13 15:07 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-08-15 14:28 +0200
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-08-15 23:35 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-08-16 00:12 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-08-16 08:12 +0000
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Alan Calder <alan_calder@o2.co.uk> - 2012-08-16 10:41 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-08-17 00:24 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Alan Griffin <ajg@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-08-17 12:53 +0100
                OT. Was: Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-08-18 19:08 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-08-18 22:25 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-08-19 12:30 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-08-17 00:17 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-08-17 21:06 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-08-18 06:01 +0000
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-08-17 00:13 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-08-13 15:00 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-08-13 16:44 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-08-13 23:40 +0100
          Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Fred Bambrough <fred@[127.0.0.1]> - 2012-08-11 17:24 +0100
            Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-08-11 18:43 +0100
            Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-08-11 23:00 +0100
              Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-08-11 23:40 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-08-12 11:44 +0100
                Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-08-13 15:01 +0100
        Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9@btinternet.com> - 2012-08-12 00:48 +0100
          Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-08-12 09:20 +0100
          Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-08-12 11:55 +0100
    Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2012-08-13 06:18 +0000
      Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Chris Hughes <news@noonehere.co.uk> - 2012-08-13 07:48 +0100
        Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2012-08-18 07:57 +0100

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