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Re: System info


  • Subject: Re: System info
  • From: John Baltutis <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:33:10 -0700

On 4/30/14, Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 4/29/14, 4:22 PM, "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> On 30 Apr 2014, at 3:39 am, Iurista GmbH <email@hidden>wrote:
>
>> I extract from system info the system version, the short user name, the home
>> directory, the boot volume and the computer name.
>
> For another way to get the system version, this currently works:
>
>     tell application "Finder" to get itsversion
>     --> "1.9.2"
>
> At least in Mavericks, the Finder version is the same as the system version.
> I don't know how far back that is true. According to its dictionary,
> 'product version' is supposed to return 'the version of the System software
> running on this computer', but all it returns is "".

In Snow Leoipard and, AFAICT across all OSs, this works better:

(system info)'s system version -> "10.6.8"

and there's no need to worry about Finder version matching OS version.
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