Auto-configuring software -- potential problems

[Chris Torek]

Rather than ``char *FOO = "%R% %W% ..."'' (in file foo.c), I always use

	#ifndef lint
	static char rcsid[] = "$Header$";
	#endif lint

(obviously I use RCS, not SCCS).  This has a couple of advantages:

	- lint won't complain about the ``unused'' variable
	- the name can't possibly conflict with another since it's local
	  to the particular source file
	- the file will even make it through the V6 cpp (not that any of
	  my source would run on V6...).
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