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From: whp@cbnap.UUCP (W. H. Pollock x4575 3S235)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c++
Subject: Re: enhancement: have C++ announce release number when it runs
Message-ID: <152@cbnap.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Jul-86 19:28:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbnap.152
Posted: Tue Jul 22 19:28:58 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 23-Jul-86 09:11:04 EDT
References: <379@mntgfx.mntgfx.UUCP> <1317@sq.UUCP>
Reply-To: whp@cbnap.UUCP (W. H. Pollock x4575 3S235)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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Keywords: release UNIX-philosophy -V SCCS

In article <1317@sq.UUCP> ian@sq.UUCP (Ian Darwin) writes:
[in reply to request for verbose CC command]
>... The approach we have taken is to provide an option
>(-V seems common enough for this purpose) to many of our programs;
>under -V, the program prints a version number in addition to
>its normal output.

Another good approach is the one taken by the korn shell; the version
information is kept as an SCCS string.  If you want to know the version
of ksh, you type "what ksh".  If you want to use "-V", a better method
is to have the "CC -V" print the version info and quit, ignoring any other
arguments.  (This way you don't have to provide a dummy dot-C file to just
find the version info.)

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