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jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) writes:
>>>chtyp -lexec or chtyp -t SRC -a \$0006 will do the trick for you...
>>         ~~~~
>>         I can't use -lexec. Maybe I have an old chtyp or something, but I
>>         checked the source and exec isn't in the language table. I'm stuck
>>         using the second form. Is there a newer version?

>Yes, there is a newer version that handles language stamps.  Unfortunately,
>there is no real way to tell what the newer version is without trying to
>see if -l works.  Which brings up a major pet peeve of mine:

My version handles all the other languages EXCEPT exec.

>Unfortunately, only 16 of 81(!) utilities that I have checked so far have
>any sort of version printout.  Thus, I also have to stick the date of the
>latest revision in this file, which is a pain and not as accurate.

>So please, folks, when you port/write a utility, include a -V flag!  That
>way people can easily find out what version they have, and things will be
>much nicer, etc etc.  It also means when you give out source and let someone
>compile it themselves the version will still be identifable as the latest
>(which you can't say about the check-by-date version).

Hmm, don't think my seq program prints a version number.. Oh, well. From now
on...

>And, hopefully a lot of the older stuff (some of it ported before GNO) can
>be updated to include a -V flag, as well as be made restartable if possible.

>I'll post my list in a few days, we'll see what happens...

>|          James Brookes            | Inet: bb252@cleveland.freenet.edu |
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