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Re: Downloading a new version when there is a update available on my sit

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Subject: Re: Downloading a new version when there is a update available on my site?
From: Brian Heibert <bheibert at verizon dot net>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:35:33 -0500
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On 11/29/04 7:26 PM, "Phil Mobley" <phil at mobleybros dot com> wrote:

> On Nov 29, 2004, at 4:19 PM, Christian Schmitz wrote:
> 
>> You could simply make a download like:
>> 
>> http://www.mydomain.com/files/updates/MyApp200.zip
>> 
>> The Number (200 for 2.0.0 in this case) is the current version number
>> of
>> the application.
> 
> Better would be:
> 
>    http://www.mydomain.com/files/updates/MyApp.txt
> 
> Which contains the most recent version number, a tab separator and the
> link to the latest version.  Your app would just check the version
> number and compare it with the version number running.  If the version
> is newer, get it from the link after the tab.
> 
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Ok put this in a file called InternetPal.txt
1.5.0    http://download.internetpal.net/

How do I get my app to check the version nummber and compare it with the
version running and if the version is newer tell it to get the file from the
link? I am lost on that sorry


Brian

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