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README.DOC August 1996
Welcome to LXT - the LISP EXPLORATION TOOLS!
The LISP Function Tree Generator (LFT) is a powerful program
development, maintenance and documentation tool. It provides
the programmer the ability to analyze the LISP or SCHEME source
code of applications, no matter how big or complex they are.
LFT is very useful to explore new, unknown software and to
support software reuse and maintenance.
By scanning and analyzing the program source code, LFT 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 LFT to produce different
outputs or to add new files to the database. The database
format is dBASE compatible. A special recall program called
LFTN 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.
The generation of output files compatible with HTML viewers
like NCSA Mosaic, Netscape or WinWord Internet Assistant is
possible. Also RTF output files which can be compiled for
Windows Help and output for the Rational Rose CASE tool is
possible.
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 word processors or
spreadsheet calculators.
This software package is provided either as a compressed self-
extracting archive file LXTnmm.EXE (LISP EXPLORATION TOOLS
version n.mm) or as a ZIPped archive file LXTnmm.ZIP. The
Windows versions are named LXTWnmm.EXE (LISP EXPLORATION TOOLS
version n.mm for Windows) or LXTWnmm.ZIP.
The official release contains the following files (D=only DOS,
W=only WINDOWS):
LFT.EXE D The LISP Function Tree Generator
LFTN.EXE The LISP Function Tree Navigator
LXT.CM The BRIEF macro file
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LXT.CB The source code for the BRIEF macros
LXTKEYS.CM The BRIEF macro key definition file
LXTKEYS.CB The source code for the BRIEF key defines
LXT_QEDT.DAT The QEDIT macro source code
LXT_ME.CMD The MicroEMACS macro source code
LFTIDE.BAT D The Borland IDE transfer batch file for LFT
GNULISP.FCT The GNU EMACS built-in LISP 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.LXT 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
FILE_ID.DIZ The BBS description file
HTML_RTF.DOC The SXT HTML and RTF output description
LFTWIN.EXE W The LISP Function Tree Generator for Windows
SXTWIN.DOC W The additional documentation for Windows
NEWnmm.WIN W The new features for the windows version
CTL3D.DLL W DLL for 3D dialogs
LFTN16.DLL W DLL to access LFT database
LFTN16.LIB W The library for the DLL
LFTNWIN.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.FRX W The VB source code
SXTNVIEW.MAK W The VB makefile
SXTNVIEW.DOC W The documentation for the sample application
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) 1988-1996 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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