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From: giacomet@venus.ecn.purdue.edu (Frederic B Giacometti)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: index of features and classes
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Date: 5 Nov 90 18:33:21 GMT
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  The utilisation of the "-i" option with the "short" command, as
described p.111 of "Eiffel: the environment" seems far from obvious to
me. In particular, having a natural apprehension concerning tinkering
with troff, the phrase "the troff variable xM is set to one" is
mysterious to me (is this a register? which one?).

  My library having reached a confortable size, I would be glad if I
could generate a nice documentation with index, which would help us to
easily keep up with the growing number of classes. So here are some
requests:

  - How does the index generation works (short -i) ? Some ready to use
shell commands would be particularly appreciated.

  - What is the elegant way to print the list of ancestors with the
'short | flat' output ?


Frederic Giacometti
School of Industrial Engineering
Purdue University