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          NAME
               cdc - change the delta commentary of an SCCS delta

          SYNOPSIS
               cdc -rSID [-m[mrlist]] [-y[comment]] files

          DESCRIPTION
               The cdc command changes the delta commentary, for the SID
               (SCCS IDentification string) specified by the -r keyletter,
               of each named SCCS file.

               Delta commentary is defined to be the Modification Request
               (MR) and comment information normally specified via the
               delta(1) command (-m and -y keyletters).

               If a directory is named, cdc behaves as though each file in
               the directory were specified as a named file, except that
               non-SCCS files (last component of the path name does not
               begin with s.)  and unreadable files are silently ignored.
               If a name of - is given, the standard input is read (see
               WARNINGS) and each line of the standard input is taken to be
               the name of an SCCS file to be processed.

               Arguments to cdc, which may appear in any order, consist of
               keyletter arguments and file names.

               All the described keyletter arguments apply independently to
               each named file:

                   -rSID        Used to specify the SCCS IDentification
                                (SID) string of a delta for which the delta
                                commentary is to be changed.

                   -mmrlist     If the SCCS file has the v flag set [see
                                admin(1)] then a list of MR numbers to be
                                added and/or deleted in the delta commen-
                                tary of the SID specified by the -r
                                keyletter may be supplied.  A null MR list
                                has no effect.

                                MR entries are added to the list of MRs in
                                the same manner as that of delta(1).  In
                                order to delete an MR, precede the MR
                                number with the character ! (see EXAMPLES).
                                If the MR to be deleted is currently in the
                                list of MRs, it is removed and changed into
                                a ``comment'' line.  A list of all deleted
                                MRs is placed in the comment section of the
                                delta commentary and preceded by a comment
                                line stating that they were deleted.

                                If -m is not used and the standard input is
                                a terminal, the prompt MRs? is issued on


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                                the standard output before the standard
                                input is read; if the standard input is not
                                a terminal, no prompt is issued.  The MRs?
                                prompt always precedes the comments? prompt
                                (see -y keyletter).

                                MRs in a list are separated by blanks
                                and/or tab characters.  An unescaped new-
                                line character terminates the MR list.

                                Note that if the v flag has a value [see
                                admin(1)], it is taken to be the name of a
                                program (or shell procedure) which vali-
                                dates the correctness of the MR numbers.
                                If a non-zero exit status is returned from
                                the MR number validation program, cdc ter-
                                minates and the delta commentary remains
                                unchanged.

                   -y[comment]  Arbitrary text used to replace the
                                comment(s) already existing for the delta
                                specified by the -r keyletter.  The previ-
                                ous comments are kept and preceded by a
                                comment line stating that they were
                                changed.  A null comment has no effect.

                                If -y is not specified and the standard
                                input is a terminal, the prompt comments?
                                is issued on the standard output before the
                                standard input is read; if the standard
                                input is not a terminal, no prompt is
                                issued.  An unescaped new-line character
                                terminates the comment text.

               Simply stated, the rules are:

               (1)
                  If you made the delta, you can change its delta commen-
                  tary.

               or

               (2)
                  If you own the file and directory, you can modify the
                  delta commentary.

          EXAMPLES
               cdc -r1.6 -m"bl78-12345 !bl77-54321 bl79-00001" -ytrouble
               s.file

               adds bl78-12345 and bl79-00001 to the MR list, removes
               bl77-54321 from the MR list, and adds the comment trouble to
               delta 1.6 of s.file.


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               cdc -r1.6 s.file
               MRs? !bl77-54321 bl78-12345 bl79-00001
               comments? trouble

               does the same thing.

          FILES
               x-file    [see delta(1)]
               z-file    [see delta(1)]

          SEE ALSO
               admin(1), delta(1), get(1), prs(1), sccsfile(4).

          WARNINGS
               If SCCS file names are supplied to the cdc command via the
               standard input (- on the command line), then the -m and -y
               keyletters must also be used.






































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