SUMMARY: Comments in a program?

Hi,

Thanks to all those who responded:
Ozgur C. Demir
Anderson McCammont
Wildemann Markus
David Evans

The general solution was that these comments were not created by hand,
instead they were/could be created by:
-m4 macros
-SCCS - see sccs-get(1)
-RCS - see ident(1)
-CVS
-Third-party software: ClearCase, PerForce, PVCS

Markus pointed out that these comments are used by /usr/bin/css/what:
# /usr/ccs/bin/what /etc/init.d/autofs
/etc/init.d/autofs:
        autofs  1.4     96/08/20 SMI

There seems to be no standard in terms of how these comments are laid out.
But the following information (to be put into comments at top) was
suggested:

Author
Program name
file name
time of completion
working time
version
advices in advance
and so on

Thanks a bunch!

Konstantin

Original Question:

Konstantin Rozinov wrote:

> Hi Gurus,
>
> I'm sure this is not the right list for this question but maybe some of
> you know this?  I would like to know if there is a specific
> format/standard that is followed in terms of commenting your program (in
> the beginning of each file) with information including your name, dept,
> company, date, program version, description, directions, etc...
>
> Also a side question: in almost all the scripts provided by sun (i.e. in
> /etc/init.d/) they have the following style:
>
> #ident  "@(#)dhcp       1.17    99/10/23 SMI"
> #ident  "@(#)ncad       1.1     00/02/08 SMI"
> #ident  "@(#)rpc        1.46    99/09/22 SMI"
>
> is this created by a script? by hand? what are the different columns?
> what is it used for other than identification purposes?
>
> Thanks a bunch!
>
> Will summarize,
>
> Konstantin
>
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