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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@seagull.rtd.com>
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Subject: a silly(?) release request
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Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 19:03:53 -0700 (MST)
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Greetings!
    It may sound silly, but could future source releases contain
a "VERSION" file in each source directory to clearly identify the
version of the code?  Ideally, every executable would have a
commandline option to emit this information.  But, they don't.
And, once a package has been placed under cvs, any preexisting
$Header$ info gets trashed during the import.
    Thanx!
--don