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From: rap@dana.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: My turn to flame at C/A...
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Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 15:35:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 18 15:35:43 1987
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Summary: Its automatic

In article <3978@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer) writes:
> 
> BTW, where did the name "autodocs" come from? I don't recall seeing it
> in any of the documentation I've got.
> 
> 	<mike

The term "autodocs" came from the fact that those files you are examining
are actually embedded in the source code for all of the system routines.
Each of the developers was required to maintain the docs as source changes
happened.  When it came time for a major release to developers or for
an issue of ROMK, we ran a program that automatically extracted the
doc files from the source that was part of the release.  Thus the
name "auto-docs".

Rob Peck	...hplabs!dana!rap

(p.s. I may be remembering incorrectly, but I believe it was Kodiak
      who generated a Pascal program (PASCAL...aaarrrggghhh) that
      performed the extraction on both asm and C source.)