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sccs-sact(1)			  User Commands 		    sccs-sact(1)

NAME
     sccs-sact, sact - show editing activity status of an SCCS file

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/ccs/bin/sact [-s]
	 [-Xextended-options] [-Nbulk-spec] s.filename...

DESCRIPTION
     The  sact	utility  informs the user of any SCCS files that are checked out
     for editing.

     The output for each named file consists of five fields separated  by  SPACE
     characters.

	 o	SID  of a delta that currently exists in the SCCS file, to which
		changes will be made to make the new delta

	 o	SID for the new delta to be created

	 o	Username of the person who has the file checked out for editing.

	 o	Date that the version was checked out.

	 o	Time that the version was checked out.

     If a directory name is used in place of the s.filename argument,  the  sact
     command  applies  to all s.files in that directory. Unreadable s.files pro-
     duce an error; processing continues with the next file (if any). The use of
     `-' as the s.filename argument indicates that the names of files are to  be
     read from the standard input, one s.file per line.

OPTIONS
     -s     Suppresses the error message when a file is not currently edited.

     -Nbulk-spec
	    Processes  a  bulk of SCCS history files.  This option allows one to
	    do an efficient mass processing of SCCS history files.

	    The bulk-spec parameter is composed from an optional  list	of  flag
	    parameters followed by an optional path specifier.

	    The following flag types are supported:

	    none

	    The following path specifier types are supported:

	    -N	      The  file  name  parameters to the sccslog command are not
		      s.filename files	but  the  names  of  the  g-files.   The
		      s.filename names are automatically derived from the g-file
		      names  by  prepending s.	to the last path name component.
		      Both, s.filename and the g-file are in the same directory.

	    -Ns.      The file	name  parameters  to  the  sccslog  command  are
		      s.filename files.  The the g-files names are automatically
		      derived  by  removing  s.  from the beginning of last path
		      name component of the s.filename.   Both,  s.filename  and
		      the g-file are in the same directory.

	    -Ndir     The  file  name  parameters to the sccslog command are not
		      s.filename files	but  the  names  of  the  g-files.   The
		      s.filename names are put into directory dir, the names are
		      automatically  derived from the g-file names by prepending
		      dir/s.  to the last path name component.

	    -Ndir/s.  The file	name  parameters  to  the  sccslog  command  are
		      s.filename  files in directory dir.  The the g-files names
		      are automatically derived by removing dir/s.  from the be-
		      ginning of last path name component of the s.filename.

	    A typical value for dir is SCCS.

	    In order to overcome the limited number of exec(2) arguments, it  is
	    recommended to use `-' as the file name parameter for sccslog(1) and
	    to send a list of path names to stdin.

     -Xextended-options
	    Specify  extended  options.  The  argument extended-options may be a
	    comma separated list of extended option names.

	    The following extended options are supported, they may  be	abbrevi-
	    ated as long ad the abbreviation is still unique. Options with para-
	    meter may not be abbreviated.

	    0	   When  reading  filenames from stdin, triggered by a file name
		   argument `-', the filename separator is a null  byte  instead
		   of  a  newline.  This allows one to use long lists with arbi-
		   trary filenames.

	    help   Print a short online help for available options.

	    The -X option is a SCHILY extension that does not exist in	historic
	    sccs implementations.

     -V
     -version
     --version
	    Prints the sact version number string and exists.

	    This  option  is  a SCHILY extension that does not exist in historic
	    sccs implementations.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     See environ(7) for descriptions of the following environment variables that
     affect the  execution  of	sact(1):  LANG,  LC_ALL,  LC_COLLATE,  LC_CTYPE,
     LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.

     SCCS_NO_HELP
	    If	set,  sact(1)  will not automatically call help(1) with the SCCS
	    error code in order to print a more helpful error  message.  Scripts
	    that  depend on the exact error messages of SCCS commands should set
	    the environment variable SCCS_NO_HELP and set LC_ALL=C.

EXIT STATUS
     The following exit values are returned:

     0	  Successful completion.

     1	  An error occurred.

FILES
     p.file	 permissions (lock) file for checked-out  versions.   See  sccs-
		 get(1) for a description of the layout of the p.file.

     s.file	 SCCS history file, see sccsfile(5).

     dump.core	 If the file dump.core exists in the current directory and a fa-
		 tal signal is received, a coredump is initiated via abort(3).

ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

     +------------------------------+-----------------------------+
     |	     ATTRIBUTE TYPE	    |	   ATTRIBUTE VALUE	  |
     +------------------------------+-----------------------------+
     | Availability		    |SUNWsprot			  |
     +------------------------------+-----------------------------+
     | Interface Stability	    |Standard			  |
     +------------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO
     sccs(1),	 sccs-add(1),	 sccs-admin(1),   sccs-branch(1),   sccs-cdc(1),
     sccs-check(1), sccs-clean(1), sccs-comb(1), sccs-commit(1), sccs-create(1),
     sccs-cvt(1), sccs-deledit(1), sccs-delget(1), sccs-delta(1), sccs-diffs(1),
     sccs-edit(1),  sccs-editor(1),  sccs-enter(1),  sccs-fix(1),   sccs-get(1),
     sccs-help(1), sccs-histfile(1), sccs-info(1), sccs-init(1), sccs-istext(1),
     sccs-ldiffs(1),   sccs-log(1),   sccs-print(1),  sccs-prs(1),  sccs-prt(1),
     sccs-rcs2sccs(1),	  sccs-remove(1),     sccs-rename(1),	  sccs-rmdel(1),
     sccs-root(1),	sccs-sccsdiff(1),      sccs-status(1),	   sccs-tell(1),
     sccs-unedit(1), sccs-unget(1),  sccs-val(1),  bdiff(1),  diff(1),	what(1),
     sccschangeset(5), sccsfile(5), attributes(7), environ(7), standards(7).

DIAGNOSTICS
     Use the SCCS help command for explanations (see sccs-help(1)).

BUGS
     None currently known.

     Mail  bugs  and  suggestions  to  schilytools@mlists.in-berlin.de or open a
     ticket at https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/issues.

     The mailing list archive may be found at:

     https://mlists.in-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/schilytools-mlists.in-berlin.de.

AUTHORS
     The SCCS suite was originally written by Marc J. Rochkind at Bell	Labs  in
     1972.   Release  4.0  of SCCS, introducing new versions of the programs ad-
     min(1), get(1), prt(1), and delta(1) was published on February 18, 1977; it
     introduced the new text based SCCS v4 history file  format  (previous  SCCS
     releases  used  a	binary	history  file format).	The SCCS suite was later
     maintained by various people at AT&T and Sun Microsystems.  Since 2006, the
     SCCS suite has been maintained  by  Joerg	Schilling  and	the  schilytools
     project authors.

SOURCE DOWNLOAD
     The  source code for sccs is included in the schilytools project and may be
     retrieved from the schilytools project at Codeberg at

     https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools.

     The download directory is

     https://codeberg.org/schilytools/schilytools/releases.

SunOS 5.11			   2022/10/06			    sccs-sact(1)

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