Re: last modified date in CVS

[Lars H. <lhe...@us...>]

> Anyway: if you're running the CVS version, you're supposed to have a 
> checked-out copy of the sources around, corresponding to the binary 
> being used.  And even if you don't, you can still check the RCS $Id 
> strings embedded in the binary ('ident gnuplot') to find out.
 
 I think this (and "strings `which gnuplot` |grep '$Id:'") only works
 with executables built without optimisation.

$ ident `which gnuplot`
/usr/local/bin/gnuplot:
     $Header: /cvsroot/gnuplot/gnuplot/term/tgif.trm,v 1.36 2005/08/07 09:43:34 mikulik Exp $