Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:51:58 -0400
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> > (Does anyone/anything look at the .ver file?)
> 
> This one is for DJ: he coined the way DJGPP *.zip files are made long 
> ago, and we've been following that since.  I guess some program, perhaps 
> on SimTel, needed those *.ver files.  DJ?

The original intent was for humans to read them, so they could find
out what's installed on their machines.  Versions from DOS 8.3
filenames are ambiguous.