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README.DOC March 1994
Welcome to DXT - the DBASE EXPLORATION TOOLS!
DFT (DBASE Function Tree Generator) is 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 informations about the source code.
An important feature is the database generation which allows the
recalling of informations 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.
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.
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 and contains
the following files:
DFT.EXE 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 definition file
DXT_QEDT.DAT The QEDIT macro source code
DXT_ME.CMD The MicroEMACS macro source code
DFTIDE.BAT The Borland IDE transfer batch file for DFT
SXT.DOC The complete documentation
INSTALL.DOC The installation instructions
PRODUCTS.DOC The SXT product overview
REGISTER.US The INTERNATIONAL registration informations
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REGISTER.GER The GERMAN registration informations
NEWnmm.DOC The new features and changes for version n.mm
HISTORY.DOC The revision history
README.DOC The file that you are currently reading
If you find any other than the above listed files, then you know
that this is not the official shareware distribution diskette
and/or archive. All documentation files are ASCII files and
should be printable on every printer.
For more informations 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) 1988-1994 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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