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Doug, Yeah, I know that, but it's Friday evening and I couldn't resist the joke and another chance to slag Windows. :-) PS - I believe the System/3 went up to V12 something. So long ago I'm not sure. ...Neil Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 2004/12/17 18:38 To Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject Re: The Day the Music Dies (was: RE: backup spool file) Neil, > Think hex, VAR1M0, VB, VC, VD (ew! - we better save that one for Windows) Except that (unlike ASCII), in EBCDIC the value VAR1M0 collates before V9R1M0 so this still breaks the previous point about character comparisons on the version string. Doug
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