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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Comparing Version Numbers Post 302269322 by nj78 on Wednesday 17th of December 2008 11:25:30 AM
Old 12-17-2008
Maybe it's in case software is running in a NFS mounted system on different systems.

Say you have AIX, you could capture the output of "oslevel" and run a test against it in the script. Actually probably better to use "uname -a" for portability.
 

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CLAWS-MAIL-PYTHON-PLUGIN(1)				      General Commands Manual				       CLAWS-MAIL-PYTHON-PLUGIN(1)

NAME
claws-mail-python-plugin -- Python scripting and console plugin. DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the claws-mail-python-plugin. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. claws-mail-python-plugin is a plugin (loadable module) for the Claws Mail mailer. This plugin offers a Python scripting access to Claws Mail. Also features a console for testing and scripts can be saved for later usage as new menu items under ``Tools'' menu. USAGE
Before using a plugin you must instruct Claws Mail to load it on startup. For this you must go ``Configuration'' menu on main window toolbar, open ``Plugins...'' dialog, click on the ``Load plugin...'' button and select the plugin file, named python_plugin.so, and press the ``Open'' button. SEE ALSO
claws-mail (1), claws-mail-extra-plugins (1). AUTHOR
claws-mail-python-plugin was written by Holger Berndt berndth@gmx.de This manual page was written by Ricardo Mones mones@debian.org for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. CLAWS-MAIL-PYTHON-PLUGIN(1)
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