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How detect MorphOS version? (esp v3 vs v2)

ChrisH

# 1
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 167 from 2009/11/26

As the title says, is there an easy way to detect which version of MorphOS is being used? Especially whether v3.x is being used or not? Or will I just have to check the version of some random library?

My reason: I had forgotten that I'd added a work-around to PortablE for a datatypes memory-trashing bug present in v2.7, which I had been told would be fixed for v3.0 . I'd like to dynamically disable this work-around, since it introduces a small memory leak.
Author of the PortablE programming language.
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»10.10.12 - 20:20

geit

# 2

MorphOS Developer

Posts: 1054 from 2004/9/23

Code:


struct Resident *rt;
----if( ( rt = FindResident( "MorphOS" ) )  {
--------version = rt->rt_Version;
--------if( rt->rt_Flags & RTF_EXTENDED ) {
------------revision = rt->rt_Revision;
--------}
 ----}

This should help.

In Shell you can do similar by performing

Version MorphOS

Geit

[ Edited by geit 10.10.2012 - 20:39 ]

»10.10.12 - 20:33