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Comment A usefull Easter Egg. (Score 1) 290

At one place I worked every new file would contain a constant variable with the value "RCS_filename_rev_no".

filename and rev_no were generated by RCS on a checkout.
That way whenever we looked at old executables we could generate them from source by looking in the executable and getting the right version of everything.

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