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Some folks might think: “you still use RCS”?!?  And we will say,
hey, at least we switched from SCCS to RCS back in … I think it was
around 1994 ... at least we are keeping up! :-) :-) :-)

Logs say that SCCS version 18 became RCS version 19 on 1994 March 18.

RCS served us well.  But now it is time to move on.   And so we are
switching to git.

Calc releases produce a lot of file changes.  In the 125 releases
of calc since 1996, when I started managing calc releases, there
have been 15473 file mods!
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NAME
scan - scan standard input for possible assignment to variables
SYNOPSIS
scan(x_1, x_2, ..., x_n)
TYPES
x_1, x_2, ... any
return integer
DESCRIPTION
When input is from a terminal, execution is halted and input is read
until a newline is entered. Strings of non-whitespace characters
are evaluated in succession and if the corresponding x_i is an lvalue,
the resulting value is assigned to x_i. If the number of strings
read exceeds n, only the first n strings are evaluated. If the number
of strings is less than n, the later x_i are ignored.
EXAMPLE
; global a, b, c, d;
; scan(a, 0, c, d)
; 2+3 b=a^2 3+4i 3+"a"
; print a,b,c,d
5 25 3+4i Error 3
LIMITS
The number of arguments is not to exceed 1024.
LINK LIBRARY
int scanfstr(char *str, char *fmt, int count, VALUE **vals);
SEE ALSO
fscan, strscan, fscanf, strscanf, scanf, printf, fprintf
## Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Landon Curt Noll
##
## Calc is open software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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## as published by the Free Software Foundation.
##
## Calc is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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##
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##
## Under source code control: 1996/04/30 03:05:18
## File existed as early as: 1996
##
## chongo <was here> /\oo/\ http://www.isthe.com/chongo/
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