Avery Dennison 6035 Programmer Manual Rev.CA 6/01 - Manual (Page 139)

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s y s G e t B I O S V e r s i o n
Description
Retrieves the BIOS version and build date.
The date string’s format is mm/dd/y y . The version string’s
format is M.mm s s , where M is the major version, mm is the
minor version, and s s is the sub-version. For example, 1.01 S.
Syntax
int far sysGetBIOSVersion(unsigned char far *lpszVersion,
unsigned char far *lpszDate);
Parameters
lpszVersion Pointer to the BIOS version.
lpszDate Pointer to the BIOS build date. If you do not need
the date, set this parameter to NULL.
Return Values
0 Successful
-1 Unsuccessful.
Example
#include <stdio.h>
#include "mmsultra.h"
void main(void)
{
int iStatus = 0; // Status of retrieval
unsigned char ucVersion[9] = " ";// BIOS version
unsigned char ucDate[10] = " "; // BIOS date
iStatus = sysGetBIOSVersion(ucVersion, ucDate); // Get info
if (iStatus != 0)
printf("BIOS Version retrieval failed.");
else
{