Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 01:36:12 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using rcs with `what' Message-ID: <199605162336.BAA00600@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <199605162017.NAA23502@athena.tera.com> from "Gary Kline" at May 16, 96 01:17:19 pm
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Gary Kline wrote: > > 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? > > Since AT&T or <whoever> owns sccs, and since `what' was > originally built for sccs, the what utility has become > relatively obsolete. But given a few minutes of hacks to > the rsc suite, `what' could be much more useful. Currently > it is only useful if pointed at binaries built with sccs_id > strings. > > Feedback? > > (I happened into this while checking some of my own projects > built with rcs... ) > > Sorry if this is an inappropriate subject... Seems a good idea to me. But why not add RCS support as an option (say '-r')? A lot of people tend to use '@(#)' in shell scripts and such as a marker, whether or not they use SCCS. While we're at it, why not implement the '-s' option (was it?) which terminates the search after finding a single '@(#)' (or RCS equivalent)? -- Robert Nordier
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