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Re: Mathematica 8.0.1 for Mac $Version string?

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  • Subject: [mg117140] Re: Mathematica 8.0.1 for Mac $Version string?
  • From: Jason Ledbetter <jasonbrent at gmail.com>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 06:13:09 -0500 (EST)

John, Others;

Thanks.

I found it under SystemInformation["Kernel","ReleaseID"]

(For some reason SystemInformation[] doesn't produce the visual output that
the helpfile suggests it should on my system, instead just generating a
system beep; it did the same in 8.0)

-jbl

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:08 PM, John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 07:01:18 -0500 (EST), Jason Ledbetter wrote:
> > Folk,
> >
> > I received an email from Wolfram today about Mathematica 8.0.1 release.
> > After
> > installing it, if I use Finder.app to browse to
> > /Applications/Mathematica.app and use cmd-i to open the information
> panel,
> > it shows the version as: "Mathematica 8.0.1 [2063982] copyright 1988-2011
> > Wolfram Research, Inc.".
> >
> > However, if I open the application and run $Version in a notebook, it
> says
> > the version is 8.0.
> >
> > Is it normal for the point releases not to show up in the $Version
> string?
> >
> > In[2]:= $Version
> > Out[2]= "8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (February 23, 2011)"
> >
> >
> > -jbl
>
> Yes, this is the typical behavior (and has been since version 1).  You can
> get
> the third digit of the version number by evaluating $ReleaseNumber, or all
> kinds
> of information related to the build by evaluating SystemInformation[].
>
> Sincerely,
>
> John Fultz
> jfultz at wolfram.com
> User Interface Group
> Wolfram Research, Inc.
>


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