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In article <01f29fbf52.martin@bach.planiverse.com>,
   Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> 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 so the outdated RO5-specific copy is no longer needed.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

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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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