Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 23:22:47 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using rcs with `what' Message-ID: <199605172122.XAA00727@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <9605172032.AA07198@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at May 17, 96 04:32:11 pm
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > > <<On Fri, 17 May 1996 22:15:44 +0200 (SAT), Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> said: > > > Garrett Wollman wrote: > > [...] > >> We probably should not even be shipping `what'; there are too many > >> interrogatives used already. > > > How do you propose people find sccsid's without it? > > Why would you want to fine sccsids when you haven't got SCCS? Well, sccsid '@(#)' convention can be useful if you simply want to embed any comment-style information in a file. For example, I remember one coding standards stylesheet used to require : # @(#) <purpose> # Author: <author>, <date> [...] for shell scripts. Admittedly, you can 'grep' for that, but with 'what' you don't have to worry about file type. One point is: any particular version control system is a development tool and is likely to be unavailable at an end-user site. But it is easy enough to say on the phone, "Run 'what' and tell me what version of the 'foo' library the program's using." It's not a big thing, either way, but 'what' probably has its niche. -- Robert Nordier
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