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35.Dd April 23, 1991
36.Dt WHAT 1
37.Os BSD 4
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm what
40.Nd "show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file"
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Nm what
43.Ar name Ar ...
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45.Nm What
46reads each file
47.Ar name
48and searches for sequences of the form
49.Dq \&@(#)
50as inserted by the source code control system.  It prints the remainder
51of the string following this marker, up to a null character, newline, double
52quote, or
53.Dq \&> character.
54.Sh BUGS
55As
56.Bx
57is not licensed to distribute
58.Tn SCCS
59this is a rewrite of the
60.Nm what
61command which is part of
62.Tn SCCS ,
63and may not behave exactly the same as that
64command does.
65.Sh HISTORY
66The
67.Nm
68command appeared in
69.Bx 4.0 .
70