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WHAT(1)  —  NEWS-OS Programmer’s Manual

NAME

what − show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file

SYNOPSIS

what name ... 

DESCRIPTION

What reads each file and searches for sequences of the form “@(#)” as inserted by the source code control system.  It then prints the remainder of the string after this marker, up to a null character, newline, double quote, or “>” character. 

BUGS

As SCCS is not licensed with NEWS-OS, this is a rewrite of the what command which is part of SCCS, and may not behave exactly the same as that command does. 

NEWS-OSRelease 4.1C

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