From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 17 09:19:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA28205 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 09:19:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA28199 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 09:19:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA05105; Fri, 17 May 1996 12:18:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 12:18:25 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9605171618.AA05105@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Gary Kline Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: using rcs with `what' In-Reply-To: <199605162017.NAA23502@athena.tera.com> References: <199605162017.NAA23502@athena.tera.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > This is tangential to the standard questions for this group. > (Hopefully.) It regards the RCS and the `what' utility. > Has anybody considered hacking the rcs stuff so that our > $src/usr.bin/what utility could be used more widely? Why? If you are using RCS, you should use the `ident' utility. We probably should not even be shipping `what'; there are too many interrogatives used already. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant