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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:04:49 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
CC: Wojciech Piechowski <voyt AT ds2 DOT pg DOT gda DOT pl>
Subject: Re: Need an autodocumenting tool
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Wojciech Piechowski wrote:
> 
> > I want it also to be portable. The project is going to run on many
> > platforms and I will need to use not only DOS+Intel.
> 
> If this needs to be portable, I would suggest to post a question to
> gnu.utils.bug, where the maintainers of GNU software could advise
> you.  Maybe such a tool already exists in some GNU package.

The DOS emulator dosemu uses such a thing.  It may be rather specialized
to it, but you could check it out.  It's called DANG_c, since it
generates a document called DANG (Dosemu Altering Novice's Guide :). 
Dosemu can be found at

ftp://ftp.dosemu.org/pub/dosemu/dosemu-0.98.2.tgz

but since this is always overloaded I have uploaded the last version to
my web server.  (Nothing significant has changed between the versions.)

http://www.cartsys.com/eldredge/dosemu-0.98.1.tgz

The bottom of the file `doc/DANG.txt' explains the format they use.  The
actual script is `src/doc/DANG/DANG_c.pl', and it's written in Perl.

Hope this helps.
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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com