Re: IDS Version Detection.

Brice wrote: > How about looking at a few release notes for the version of Informix? I > bet on a windows box the release notes are still in > "$INFORMIXDIR\\release\\en_us\\0333". With a little scripting you can make > it look nice. HTH. > > Brice > > % head /opt/informix/informix7/release/en_us/0333/IDS_7.3 > ================================= > MACHINE SPECIFIC NOTES > FOR > Informix Dynamic Server 7.31.UC7 PRODUCT RELEASE > DATE: 09 Aug 2000 > ================================= A very good idea. And we do have the ability to download files through SSH. The issues here are the following. 1) Is the $INFORMIXDIR value found in the registry (or even in autoexec.bat) reliably? 2) Are these notes automatically and always updated for an upgrade (so that the file would be overwritten when 7.31.UC8 is loaded) 3) How can you find out what the directory below 0333 is? If all that is known from the $INFORMIXDIR is that it is informix 7, how do you know if the information is in IDS_7.2 or IDS_7.3 If these can be handled, I think we have a working solution. Thank You Randolph Finder SAINT developer.