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From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
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Subject: Re: using rcs with `what'
To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 16:22:54 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <9605171618.AA05105@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "May 17, 96 12:18:25 pm"
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According to Garrett Wollman:
> <<On Thu, 16 May 1996 13:17:19 -0700 (PDT), Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> 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.
> 

	I don't think there can be too many tools.  Besides, 
	ident doesn't work on sccsid'd files and what doesn't
	work on rcs-controlled files.

	It looks as tho my hack won't work here at Tera in our
	BSD port because our compiler does incremental relocation
	tricks on obj files.  But my hack ought to work on my
	Sun obj files and at home.

	I've already put in the hack into rcs-5.7.  Intend to 
	hack `what' into ident and have them be links.  Keep 
	life simple.  Project for a rainy day...

	gary kline