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From: Tobias Burnus <tobias.burnus@physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:00:56 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Wybo Dekker wrote:
> I want to check context's version in a perl script to verify that it's
> recent enough. Is there a better way than this?:
Hmm. Probably not. One could try something like:
 grep contextversion `kpsewhich context.tex` | sed -e 's/.*{//' -e 's/}//'
But this only checks the file not the format.

Using cont-en is not the best though I have no better alternative.

Tobias