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35.\"     @(#)what.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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37.Dd June 6, 1993
38.Dt WHAT 1
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm what
42.Nd "show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file"
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.Nm what
45.Ar name Op Ar ...
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47.Nm
48reads each file
49.Ar name
50and searches for sequences of either the form
51.Dq $
52immediately followed by the system name (sysname) as defined by
53.Xr uname 3 ,
54or the form
55.Dq \&@(#)
56as inserted by the source code control system.
57It prints the remainder
58of the string following this marker, up to a null character, newline, double
59quote, or
60.Ql >
61character.
62.Sh HISTORY
63The
64.Nm
65command appeared in
66.Bx 4.0 .
67.Sh BUGS
68As
69.Bx
70is not licensed to distribute
71.Tn SCCS
72this is a rewrite of the
73.Nm
74command which is part of
75.Tn SCCS ,
76and may not behave exactly the same as that
77command does.
78