From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from quanstro.net ([66.92.161.167]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <8797>; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:43:06 -0500 Received: by quanstro.net (Postfix, from userid 210) id 003CB3F40B; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:37:15 -0500 (EST) To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu From: erik quanstrom Subject: rc 1.6 $version Message-Id: <20020314223715.003CB3F40B@quanstro.net> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:37:15 -0500 is there any way that $version could be changed either to not be so magic (i.e. assigned at startup time) or better something like _rc_version_. i have been discovering scripts that no longer work with rc 1.6 ever since i installed it because they were assigning to $version and expecting the same value back. silly me. erik