From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 2 20: 4:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rosencrantz.citytel.net (rosencrantz.rupert.net [204.244.98.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A263814EA3 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 20:04:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kwoody@citytel.net) Received: from rosencrantz.citytel.net (kwoody@rosencrantz.rupert.net [204.244.98.45]) by rosencrantz.citytel.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id UAA14979; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 20:04:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 20:04:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Keith Woodworth Reply-To: kwoody@citytel.net To: "Michael W. Akers" Cc: "'FreeBSD'" Subject: Re: Off the wall question ... In-Reply-To: <01BEF561.DD5D1390@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message