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32.\"     @(#)what.1	6.4 (Berkeley) 4/23/91
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34.Dd April 23, 1991
35.Dt WHAT 1
36.Os BSD 4
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm what
39.Nd "show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file"
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Nm what
42.Ar name Ar ...
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44.Nm What
45reads each file
46.Ar name
47and searches for sequences of the form
48.Dq \&@(#)
49as inserted by the source code control system.  It prints the remainder
50of the string following this marker, up to a null character, newline, double
51quote, or
52.Dq \&> character.
53.Sh BUGS
54As
55.Bx
56is not licensed to distribute
57.Tn SCCS
58this is a rewrite of the
59.Nm what
60command which is part of
61.Tn SCCS ,
62and may not behave exactly the same as that
63command does.
64.Sh HISTORY
65The
66.Nm
67command appeared in
68.Bx 4.0 .
69