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diff --git a/docs/autodocifier.pl b/docs/autodocifier.pl index 3016e4022..377c8b55b 100755 --- a/docs/autodocifier.pl +++ b/docs/autodocifier.pl @@ -189,11 +189,15 @@ Example: The purpose of this script is to automagically generate documentation for busybox using its usage.h as the original source for content. -Currently, the same content has to be duplicated in 3 places in +It used to be that same content has to be duplicated in 3 places in slightly different formats -- F<usage.h>, F<docs/busybox.pod>, and -F<docs/busybox.sgml>. This is tedious, so Perl has come to the rescue. +F<docs/busybox.sgml>. This was tedious and error-prone, so it was +decided that F<usage.h> would contain all the text in a +machine-readable form, and scripts could be used to transform this +text into other forms if necessary. -This script was based on a script by Erik Andersen <andersen@lineo.com> +F<autodocifier.pl> is one such script. +It was based on a script by Erik Andersen <andersen@lineo.com> which was in turn based on a script by Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com> =head1 OPTIONS @@ -258,13 +262,13 @@ is disabled. I<REQUIRED> This is documentation that is intended to go in the POD or SGML, but not be printed when a B<-h> is given to a command. To see an example -of notes being used, see init_notes_usage. I<OPTIONAL> +of notes being used, see init_notes_usage in F<usage.h>. I<OPTIONAL> =item B<example> -This should be an example of how the command is acutally used. +This should be an example of how the command is actually used. This will not be printed when a B<-h> is given to a command -- it -is inteded only for the POD or SGML documentation. I<OPTIONAL> +will only be included in the POD or SGML documentation. I<OPTIONAL> =back @@ -280,8 +284,8 @@ terms as Perl itself. =head1 AUTHOR -John BEPPU <beppu@lineo.com> +John BEPPU <b@ax9.org> =cut -# $Id: autodocifier.pl,v 1.22 2001/10/24 04:59:20 andersen Exp $ +# $Id: autodocifier.pl,v 1.23 2001/10/31 04:29:18 beppu Exp $ |