The answer is, of course, "Maybe". I just opened an .exe I built with LabVIEW 12, and used a text editor (on a binary file, yet!) to search for the string "LabVIEW". I found a buried reference to labview/branches/2012/dev/plat/win/... I don't know if this is in all programs (hmm, why don't I look at another one ... yep (I saved time by searching for "branches"). Not sure I have older .exe files, hence can't say whether all versions of LabVIEW do this (hmm, I've got some code from LabVIEW 7 on a VM -- just a minute ... Well, searching for "branches" finds labview/branches/wormhole/..., not so helpful. However, a search for LabVIEW found, mixed in among some binary stuff, the string "7.0". Let's see if 7.0 appears in other places ... Interesting, there are multiple copies of strings that look like "7.0b71?Oldest compatible LabVIEW" (the character where I put the question mark is really the character "^Z").
Bob Schor
Seek, and maybe Ye Shall Find ...
