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- SDX
- Simple Documentation Extractor
- Copyright (C) 1988 by Bryan Ford
-
- SDX is a program which scans through C source code for documentation,
- and extracts it into a file. I wrote it because Fred Fish's dex was much
- more than I needed, and somewhat harder to use, mainly because you had to
- have a .dexrc file. Also, it required its output to be run through a
- text processor, and for some reason my text processor didn't like the
- output files it created, in that backslashes were inserted before
- every period. This is why I call it the "simple" documentation extractor -
- because it doesn't have any fancy styles or boxes around titles - it just
- extracts documentation.
- To run SDX, just type SDX file1 file2 file3... Wildcards are allowed,
- but right now my wildcard routines are quite buggy (I just wanted to get
- this program *out*), so the only wildcards you can use are the single
- asterisk (*), or a single #?, both of which mean "all the files in this
- directory". This shouldn't be too much of a problem, because I *doubt* it
- will find documentation in non-source code. The output goes to the
- standard output, so you'll probably want to redirect it.
- In all source files, SDX searches for strings like this:
- <nl>/*<nl><sp>*<sp><sp>, where <nl> is a newline and <sp> is a space.
- Then it checks the line that started with <sp>*<sp><sp>. If all of the
- characters on that line are either non-alphabetic or uppercase, it starts
- extracting. If there are any lowercase characters, it skips it and tries
- to find the search string again.
- If it finds documentation, it will extract it to stdout, with the
- <sp>*<sp><sp> changed to four spaces. Tabs just after the first asterisk
- are changed to six spaces, but others aren't affected. It stops extracting
- when it comes to a line without <sp>* at the beginning, finds a <sp>*/
- line, or finds the end of the file. It will then output a form-feed
- character to the standard output (which will clear the screen on the
- Amiga's console device).
- Now that the technical junk is over, this sample doc should clarify
- things. It is for a function named `xyz' which prints the specified string
- to the screen, and returns TRUE if it was successful.
-
- /*
- * FUNCTION
- * xyz - Prints a string to the screen
- *
- * SYNOPSIS
- * Success = xyz(String)
- *
- * DESCRIPTION
- * Prints the string to the screen
- *
- * INPUTS
- * String - Pointer to the string to print
- *
- * RETURNS
- * Returns TRUE if it was successful, or FALSE if unsuccessful.
- *
- */
-
- Although this might not be a very good example, it shows how things
- work. I have used this program to extract documentation on my huge (30K)
- custom library, and it has worked nicely.
- Now for what you've all been waiting for. This program is in a way
- Shareware, but I won't require you to send a donation. If you like this
- program, and think it's worth something, just send whatever you think it's
- worth to my address below. This program is freely distributable, so you
- can copy it as much as you like, and are encouraged to do so.
- I'm also interested in what anyone has to say about this program, or
- ideas for other useful utilities which need making. My address is below.
-
- Snail: Bryan Ford
- 1790 East 1400 North
- Logan, UT 84321
- Fone: (801)753-1159
- Bitnet: FATQW@USU
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