what/what.1

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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
  44 .Ar name Ar ...
  45 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  46 .Nm
  47 reads each file
  48 .Ar name
  49 and searches for sequences of the form
  50 .Dq \&@(#) ,
  51 as inserted by the source code control system.  It prints the remainder
  52 of the string following this marker, up to a null character, newline, double
  53 quote, or
  54 .Dq \&> character.
  55 .Sh BUGS
  56 As
  57 .Bx
  58 is not licensed to distribute
  59 .Tn SCCS .
  60 This is a rewrite of the
  61 .Nm
  62 command which is part of
  63 .Tn SCCS ;
  64 it may not behave in exactly the same manner as that
  65 command does.
  66 .Sh HISTORY
  67 The
  68 .Nm
  69 command appeared in
  70 .Bx 4.0 .