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Date:      Thu, 2 Sep 1999 20:04:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Keith Woodworth <kwoody@citytel.net>
To:        "Michael W. Akers" <mwakers@home.com>
Cc:        "'FreeBSD'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Off the wall question ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.990902200256.13759A-100000@rosencrantz.citytel.net>
In-Reply-To: <01BEF561.DD5D1390@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com>

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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Michael W. Akers wrote:

>>Got a question for 'ya all,
>>In just about every script that I open in FreeBSD I see
>>the following line:
>>
>>(This one from /etc/csh.cshrc)
>>#	$Id: csh.cshrc,v 1.2 1998/09/02 01:34:55 brian Exp $
>>
>>Is this required?
>>What generates it?
>>What documentation covers this?
>>

I'll take a wild guess and say it generated by RCS so you can keep track
of revisions of any programs/sourc code/files you might be using.

Its not needed per say as far as I know but is helpful when wondering when
you may have last edited a file or what have you.

keith



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