I had a 'suspicion' the it was something like a parsing 
issue.  The formal answer, '(major,minor,,,,)' is excellent.

Many thanks,

Bill Hudspeth



On 12 Aug 2001, at 19:05, Matthieu Herrb wrote:

> You wrote (in your message from Sunday 12)
>  > 
>  > My guess: parse that as 4|01|00|00. Therefore, 4.0.1
>  would have been > 4000100. > 
> 
> That's it .From
> xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf86Version.h:
> 
> /* This has five arguments for compatibilty reasons */
> #define XF86_VERSION_NUMERIC(major,minor,patch,snap,dummy) \
>  (((major) * 10000000) + ((minor) * 100000) + ((patch) *
>  1000) + snap)
> 
> -- 
>      Matthieu
>