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README.DOC April 1995
Welcome to DXT - the DBASE EXPLORATION TOOLS!
The DBASE Function Tree Generator (DFT) is a powerful program
development, maintenance and documentation tool. It provides the
programmer the ability to analyse the DBASE (or CLIPPER, FOXBASE
and other X-BASE languages) source code of applications, no
matter how big or complex they are. DFT is very useful to explore
new, unknown software and to support software reuse and
maintenance.
By scanning and analyzing the program source code, DFT builds an
internal representation of the function call hierarchy relations.
The analysis is done with the original source code, no additional
editing to mark functions or data types in the source code is
necessary. Several features and options allow the user to
customize the generated hierarchy tree chart output and to get a
large set of useful information about the source code.
An important feature is the database generation which allows the
recalling of information without reprocessing the source. This
database can again be read from DFT to produce different outputs
or to add new files to the database. The database format is dBASE
compatible. A special recall program called DFTN allows fast
searching for items in the database. This program can be used
within any environment, for example from inside editors like
BRIEF, QEDIT or MicroEMACS (DOS and WINDOWS version), to provide
a full software project management system with access to all
functions and data types with just a keystroke. This feature
makes a comfortable "hypertext source code browser and locator"
system out of the editor. The windows version provides an
additionally DLL for database access.
Another feature is the calculation of the critical function call
path. It is possible to generate formatted ASCII text files with
lists of the functions and the scanned files which can be used as
input for other programs like wordprocessors or spreadsheet
calculators. The generation of output compatible with HTML
viewers like NCSA Mosaic, RTF for Windows Help and with the
Rational Rose CASE tool is also possible.
This software package is provided either as a compressed
self-extracting archive file DXTnmm.EXE (DBASE EXPLORATION TOOLS
version n.mm) or as a ZIPped archive file DXTnmm.ZIP. The Windows
versions are named DXTWnmm.EXE (DBASE EXPLORATION TOOLS version
n.mm for Windows) or DXTWnmm.ZIP. The official release contains
the following files (D=only DOS, W=only WINDOWS):
DFT.EXE D The DBASE Function Tree Generator
DFTN.EXE The DBASE Function Tree Navigator
DXT.CM The BRIEF macro file
DXTKEYS.CM The BRIEF macro key definition file
DXTKEYS.CB The source code for the BRIEF key defines
DXT_QEDT.DAT The QEDIT macro source code
DXT_ME.CMD The MicroEMACS macro source code
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DFTIDE.BAT D The Borland IDE transfer batch file for DFT
DBASE.FCT The DBASE builtin functions
SXT.DOC The complete SXT documentation
INSTALL.DOC The installation instructions
PRODUCTS.DOC The SXT product overview
REGISTER.US The INTERNATIONAL registration information
REGISTER.GER The GERMAN registration information
NEWnmm.DOC The new features and changes for version n.mm
HISTORY.DOC The revision history
PROBLEMS.DOC The problem and bug list
README.DOC The file that you are currently reading
DFTWIN.EXE W The DBASE Function Tree Generator for Windows
SXTWIN.DOC W The additional documentation for Windows
NEWnmm.WIN W The new features concerning the windows version
CTL3D.DLL W DLL for 3D dialogs
DFTNWIN.DLL W DLL to access DFT database
DFTNWIN.LIB W The library for the DLL
DFTNWIN.H W The prototype header file
SXTNVIEW.EXE W Visual Basic sample application for DLL access
SXTNVIEW.ICO W The SXTN icon
SXTNVIEW.FRM W The VB source code
SXTNVIEW.MAK W The VB makefile
SXTNVIEW.DOC W The documentation for the sample aaplication
All documentation files are ASCII files and should be printable
on every printer.
For more information about usage, hardware and software system
requirements, installation, trademarks, warranties, license and
registration details see the appropriate documentation,
especially SXT.DOC, INSTALL.DOC and REGISTER.US resp.
REGISTER.GER.
This software is Copyright (C) 1988-1995 by Juergen Mueller,
Aldingerstrasse 22, D-70806 Kornwestheim, GERMANY. This software
is NOT public domain or free software, but is being distributed
as SHAREWARE.
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