Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 17:33:26 -0700 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> To: "Michael W. Akers" <mwakers@home.com> Cc: "'FreeBSD'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Off the wall question ... Message-ID: <19990902173326.A80542@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <01BEF561.DD5D1390@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com>; from Michael W. Akers on Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 04:40:27PM -0700 References: <01BEF561.DD5D1390@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com>
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On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 04:40:27PM -0700, 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?
That is an Id line from RCS. It is used for revision control. For more info
try the following;
man RCS
man ci
man co
Josef
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