From: Peter da Silva (peter@NeoSoft.com)
Date: 04/23/93


From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: PLEA across the board.
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 23:46:48 GMT

In article <SCT.93Apr21213242@damsay.dcs.ed.ac.uk> sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes:
> 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".

> Why not just do it the RCS way, and have a "$Id:$" string in any
> modules you want to identify.

That's exactly the *same* solution, except for RCS instead of SCCS.

The problem with "what" and "ident" is they give you *all* the ID strings
in the program, rather than just the one for the mainline. Hence my suggestion
for a "what -q" (or ident -q).

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