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32.\"     @(#)what.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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36.Dd June 6, 1993
37.Dt WHAT 1
38.Os BSD 4
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm what
41.Nd "show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file"
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Nm what
44.Ar name Ar ...
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46.Nm What
47reads each file
48.Ar name
49and searches for sequences of the form
50.Dq \&@(#)
51as inserted by the source code control system.  It prints the remainder
52of the string following this marker, up to a null character, newline, double
53quote, or
54.Dq \&> character.
55.Sh BUGS
56As
57.Bx
58is not licensed to distribute
59.Tn SCCS
60this is a rewrite of the
61.Nm what
62command which is part of
63.Tn SCCS ,
64and may not behave exactly the same as that
65command does.
66.Sh SEE ALSO
67.Xr ident 1
68.Sh HISTORY
69The
70.Nm
71command appeared in
72.Bx 4.0 .
73