determining '6000 s/w version numbers (was Re: "emacs" terminfo)

[Marc Pawliger]

In article <1991Feb5.071911.3676 at ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>, gmoff at ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Moffat) writes:
> marc at ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Marc Pawliger) writes:
> 
> >You can find out the version number of your system by running the command
> >'lslpp -h bos.obj'.  lslpp lists the Licensed Program Products on your system.
> >-h means include the history and bos.obj is the Base Operating System objects.
> >Anyway, the last line of the output should be something like:
> 
> >ACTIVE COMMIT MM/DD/YY 03.01.XXXX.YYYY userid
> 
> >The MM/DD/YY is the date the BOS update was applied and XXXX is the update
> >level of the AIX 3.1 product.
> 
> Presumably this means 03.01.0001.0003 is what's colloquially known as 3001?
> We believe we need 3003 to run our 730 successfully, would this show as
> 03.01.0003.yyyy?  What is the yyyy part?
> -Just a little curious

Sorry, I should have been a little more explicit.

The colloquial 3001 would appear as 03.01.0001.YYYY, and 3003 03.01.0003.YYYY.
03 is the major release number, 01 the minor and 0001, etc. the update level.
I don't know what the YYYY part is, but it does not appear significant in
determining what version of software you are running.

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