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  Version number of an application Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-08-02 21:03 +0100
    Re: Version number of an application Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-08-03 00:01 +0100
      Re: Version number of an application Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2019-08-03 19:34 +0100
        Re: Version number of an application Ian <Ian.Hamilton@AAUG.net> - 2019-08-04 05:17 +0100
          Re: Version number of an application Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-08-04 11:39 +0100
          Re: Version number of an application Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-08-04 18:05 +0100

#5809 — Version number of an application

When the Iyonix came out, Castle recommended some tweaks to a few of the
conventions to do with applications.  For example, they asked authors to
include "Help..." as the second item on the iconbar menu, after Info.

I have a vague recollection that there were some suggestions to do with the
Messages file or maybe setting system variables to show the version number of
the application.  This would be useful for finding out what the version was
without running the application and looking at Info.  Use cases include a
utility that could trawl the hard disc and index what applications were
installed where.

I cannot find the web page any more.  Does anyone have a reference to these
suggestions?

Thanks,

-- 
Matthew Phillips
Durham

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#5810

On 2 Aug, Matthew Phillips wrote in message
    <4f6364dd57.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk>:

> I cannot find the web page any more.  Does anyone have a reference to
> these suggestions?

Was it this?

https://web.archive.org/web/20090323082415/http://www.iyonix.com/index.html

-- 
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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#5811

In message <mpro.pvmta303nvewy01up.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>
 on 3 Aug 2019 Steve Fryatt  wrote:

> On 2 Aug, Matthew Phillips wrote in message
>     <4f6364dd57.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk>:
> 
> > I cannot find the web page any more.  Does anyone have a reference to
> > these suggestions?
> 
> Was it this?
> 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20090323082415/http://www.iyonix.com/index.html

Yes thanks, it was part of that site. Specifically this page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080514204932/http://www.iyonix.com/32bit/help.shtml

It advises setting AppName$Version, AppName$Web and various other things I
have never botehred with.  It looks like only 12 of the applications that are
booted when I start this computer set AppName$Version -- I don't think this
idea really took off.  I wonder whether anything tried to make use of it.

Matthew

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#5812

On Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:34:44 +0100
Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> In message <mpro.pvmta303nvewy01up.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>
>  on 3 Aug 2019 Steve Fryatt  wrote:
> 
> > On 2 Aug, Matthew Phillips wrote in message
> >     <4f6364dd57.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk>:
> >   
> > > I cannot find the web page any more.  Does anyone have a
> > > reference to these suggestions?  
> > 
> > Was it this?
> > 
> > https://web.archive.org/web/20090323082415/http://www.iyonix.com/index.html  
> 
> Yes thanks, it was part of that site. Specifically this page:
> 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20080514204932/http://www.iyonix.com/32bit/help.shtml
> 
> It advises setting AppName$Version, AppName$Web and various other
> things I have never botehred with.  It looks like only 12 of the
> applications that are booted when I start this computer set
> AppName$Version -- I don't think this idea really took off.  I wonder
> whether anything tried to make use of it.
> 



Adam Richardson wrote HelpScan which collates these :-

http://www.snowstone.org.uk/riscos/

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#5813

On 4 Aug, Ian wrote in message
    <20190804051730.39c472d2@ian-460-p050na>:

> On Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:34:44 +0100 Matthew Phillips
> <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > >
https://web.archive.org/web/20090323082415/http://www.iyonix.com/index.html
> > 
> > Yes thanks, it was part of that site. Specifically this page:
> > 
> >
https://web.archive.org/web/20080514204932/http://www.iyonix.com/32bit/help.shtml

That's the page I was looking at! Frames were a really bad idea, weren't
they? :-)

[snip]
 
> > I wonder whether anything tried to make use of it.
> 
> Adam Richardson wrote HelpScan which collates these :-
> 
> http://www.snowstone.org.uk/riscos/

I was going to mention that, too; it's the only thing that I'm aware of,
however.

-- 
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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#5814

In article <20190804051730.39c472d2@ian-460-p050na>,
   Ian <Ian.Hamilton@AAUG.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Aug 2019 19:34:44 +0100
> Adam Richardson wrote HelpScan which collates these :-

> http://www.snowstone.org.uk/riscos/

Never knew it existed. Thanks for the link.

Richard

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