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C Cross Reference DataBase
by: Greg McGary
Amiga Port by Rick Schaeffer
E. 13611 26th Ave.
Spokane, Wa. 99216
This archive contains binaries and documentation for a really nice C
language cross-reference data base system. The following documents are
for the Unix environment it was originally written for. Except for the
differences I will note below the programs work as documented. The
documents are:
mkid.man
lid.man
tutorial
First, the caveats:
This system was designed for the Unix programming environment and, as such,
expects that the underlying shell program will expand command line wild-
card arguments. I thought of using the Arp library wildcard expansion
routines but then I would have had to restrict users to those that had
installed the Arp library. Personally, I use the Matt Dillon/Steve Drew
shell program (often known as "csh") on my system and it performs all
wildcard expansions quite nicely (as any decent shell should!). This
system, while useable without wildcard expansion, really needs it and so
that is the one restriction on it's use...you must be running either "csh"
or some equivalent shell which expands command line wildcards and passes
a proper "argv" array to the program being run. I will be posting the
source to this system so that those that can't or won't run "csh" or it's
equivalent can add wildcard expansion themselves.
In Unix, the "lid" program is actually linked to two other names: "eid" and
"gid". Since we can't link files together on Amigados in this manner, I
added a flag, "-g", to "lid" which makes it run the "gid" functions as
documented in "lid.man". Typing "lid -g string" is the same as typing
"gid string" under Unix. On my system, I have placed a file named "gid.sh"
in my command search path which is a one line csh script and is included in
this arc file. Since "csh" will automatically execute a file containing
a ".sh" extension as a script, this means that I can type "gid string"
just as I do on Unix. Put "gid.sh" in the same place you put the other
files.
Under Unix, the "eid" function of "lid" automatically invokes the "vi"
editor with the files found in the data base and does an automatic
search for the desired string. I have not yet implemented this function
on Amigados...so "eid" doesn't work.
Other than the differences in root directory naming (which should be
transparent to the user), this program should function exactly as
documented in the manual pages. One really good use I have found for
it (aside from keeping track of symbols in a rather large system I am
developing on the Amiga) is to create a database of all the symbols in
the standard "include" files. To do this, just change to the directory
which contains all of your ".h" files and type:
mkid *.h */*.h
This will create a file named "ID" in your "include" directory. You can
then type, for instance, "lid FileInfoBlock" and it will instantly tell
you which file(s) reference that symbol. If you type "gid FileInfoBlock",
then it will also display the lines of the files that reference that
symbol. It's similar to grep only *MUCH* faster. If you are currently
"cd'd" to "include/graphics" it will automatically find the ID file in
the parent directory (you don't have to cd to it in order to run lid or
gid) and will report pathnames of files it finds relative to the directory
you are currently in! Really nice tool!
Rick Schaeffer
70120,174