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Subject: Document extraction tools
Message-ID: <1740@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 15:47:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: uvacs.1740
Posted: Mon Jul  6 15:47:50 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jul-87 06:41:55 EDT
Organization: U.Va. CS Department, Charlottesville, VA
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Keywords: documentation, unix, tools



Is there anyone out in net.land who has written, used, or
read about any kind of document extraction tools?  As part
of my Master's research, I've written several small, fairly
simple C programs to produce reports directly from code.  An
example of this is a program to print an alphabetized listing
of the functions defined in a file, including information
such as the function's return type, parameters and their types:


   cs_query           cs_object.c        line 176
	 RETURN TYPE  void
	 2 PARAMETERS
	      query_code       query_code_type
	      response_code    ptr to response_code_type


Some of the other reports are a glossary of user-defined constants,
and an alphabetized listing of user-defined types.  The main idea
is that a lot of helpful information can be taken directly from code.

Any information on tools such as these would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your help!

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