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From: dws@cseg03.engr.uark.edu (David W. Summers)
Subject: Re: PLEA across the board.
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 03:22:00 GMT
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Subject: Re: PLEA across the board.
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In comp.os.linux you write:
>In article <C5t95t.Ft3@sugar.neosoft.com>, peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>> Put a string in that can be grepped for with "what". Right now, the
>> output from "what" is a little verbose (it gives you the version
>> number of every module in the file), but a "what -q" that just gives
>> strings flagged with a "program version number" would be a trivial
>> enhancement, then you could do "what /bin/*" and see what version of
>> *everything* you're using.
>
>> Much better than adding an option (that might conflict with existing
>> options) to every program.
>
>Why not just do it the RCS way, and have a "$Id:$" string in any
>modules you want to identify. This way, the information is
>automatically kept uptodate by RCS or CVS, and you can use the
>existing "ident" command from RCS to identify both source and code
>(assuming you have $Id$ string constants in your modules).
>
>Cheers,
> Stephen Tweedie.
>---
>Stephen Tweedie <sct@uk.ac.ed.dcs> (Internet: <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>)
>Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
I have a short program that will search for both "what" (SCCS) strings
and "ident" (RCS) strings at the same time. I wrote it a few years ago
as I began switching over to RCS from SCCS. I can e-mail or post it if
anyone is interested. I find it quite handy.
- David Summers
(dws@engr.uark.edu)
--
"Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a station-wagon
David Summers full of tapes, hurtling down the highway."
dws@engr.uark.edu - Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks"