Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:44:51 -0500 From: Chris Newman Subject: Re: clib & RISC OS 4.39 Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:35:08 +0100 Message-ID: <52bfd7852fcvjazz@waitrose.com> References: <52bd999662cvjazz@waitrose.com> <52bd9ab19dchrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> <52bd9fe31ccvjazz@waitrose.com> <52bda2f156chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> <52bdc879a3cvjazz@waitrose.com> <52be0adc72chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> <52bea1646bcvjazz@waitrose.com> <01f29fbf52.martin@bach.planiverse.com> User-Agent: Pluto/3.04e (RISC-OS/4.39) NewsHound/v1.52-32 Organization: None Lines: 34 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-Mabpl/fxqaoi/JHif/hJYHBG2JY38qqnNYU9COHwQcJdl7Ac+/uBWVscsIAqm1HaHsmgT4KMpCVYTw/!w8wdvEpfXZGJj570Rlkx8q5WEFjV8yrztOWnWQCjEKHTY5X/DXDsSngB8h8MUSpdXvPJHYVC X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2915 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:6110 In article <01f29fbf52.martin@bach.planiverse.com>, Martin Wuerthner wrote: > In message <52bea1646bcvjazz@waitrose.com> > >> 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. Thanks, Martin. I now understand. As I have 4.39 Adjust I presumably don't need the 500 dir so I'll move it out of !Boot & check all works without it. At this stage, I have no idea what put it there. Many thanks. -- Chris Newman