RCS and SCCS

[Gregg Siegfried]

In article <1207 at dragon.UUCP> charles at dragon.UUCP (Charles Wolff, 602 438-3432) writes:

>	DATE_TOUCH=`date +%m%d%H%M%y`
>
>when we checked it into and back out of the sccs source base however,
>something happened... sccs saw %H% in the middle of the line and decided
>that was an SCCS significant string... so on checking out the file,
>converted it to the current date in MM/DD/YY format.  Oops... if anybody
>has any brilliant suggestions for how to get around this, they'd be
>welcome...

I experienced this in a C program about a year ago .. It can be the
source of some really interesting results.  I got around it by using 
backslashes.

DATE_TOUCH=`date +%m\%d\%H\%M\%y` should do the trick..


>"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence,	|  Charles Wolff
>that is the last you are going to see of him till he	|  Motorola Microsystems
>emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb	|  Tempe, AZ
>in his mouth."  --Mark Twain, Connecticut Yankee	|  (602) 438-3432


-- 
 Gregg Siegfried            | Nothing I say should be taken as AT&T
 AT&T - Cincinnati          | policy or opinion .. I just hack here.
 UUCP: grs at alobar.att.com   | Don't Rock - Wobble
 ARPA: grs%alobar.att.arpa  | 513-629-8314 (work) 513-561-0368 (antiwork)