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At 10:06 AM 9/20/2002 +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Something like this would be good to have in the context core. (watch
>the *like this*).

right, needs some thinking -)

texexec --version

>    TeXExec 2.6 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2001
>    TeXUtil 7.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2000
>    cont-en:  ver: 2001.11.13  fmt: 2002.8.28  int: english  mes: english
>    cont-nl:  ver: 2001.11.13  fmt: 2002.8.28  int: dutch    mes: dutch
>    tex:  pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7)
>
>Is that doable?

sure, see attached version.pl

this is windows, so can you sort out the > redirection alternative for unix?

Hans 
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$texexec = $texutil = $pdfetex = $english = $dutch = "" ; 

sub AnalyzeVersion
  { open (LOG, "texexec.tmp") ; 
    while (<LOG>) 
      { chomp ; 
        if    (/^\s*(.*TeXExec.*?)\s*$/o)      { $texexec = $1 }
        elsif (/^\s*(.*TeXUtil.*?)\s*$/o)      { $texutil = $1 }  
        elsif (/^\s*(.*pdf(|e)TeX.*?)\s*$/o)   { $pdfetex = $1 } 
        elsif (/^\s*(.*int: english.*?)\s*$/o) { $english = $1 } 
        elsif (/^\s*(.*int: dutch.*?)\s*$/o)   { $dutch   = $1 } } 
    close (LOG) }

open (TEX,">texexec.tex") ; 
print TEX "\\starttext test \\stoptext" ; 
close (TEX) ; 

unlink ("texexec.tui") ; 
unlink ("texexec.tuo") ; 

system("texexec --interface=en texexec.tex > texexec.tmp") ;  
AnalyzeVersion ;
system("texexec --once --interface=nl texexec.tex > texexec.tmp") ;  
AnalyzeVersion ;

print "current distribution:\n\n" ; 
print "texexec   : $texexec\n" ; 
print "texutil   : $texutil\n" ;
print "pdf(e)tex : $pdfetex\n" ;
print "cont-en   : $english\n" ;
print "cont-nl   : $dutch\n" ;
print "\n" ; 

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