man aegis (Formats) - file format

NAME

- file format

DESCRIPTION

The files used by the program all have the same format. Some of the files used by are created and maintained by humans, and some are created an maintained by itself. The various manual entries say which is which.

LEXICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Names are any C identifier. Comments are C-style comments (or C++ or shell). Numbers are decimal, octal or hexadecimal, as for C constants. Whitespace (spaces, tabs and newlines) are ignored except in strings or as they serve to separate tokens.

Strings are C-style strings, and similar to C, sequential string constants are silently catenated together.

In addition, there is a style of CW]@string@ which use at-signs (@) for quoting. Unlike the C style of string, newlines are allowed within these strings. To get an at-sign in such a string, double the at-sign. There is no other escape mechanism available.

GRAMMAR

The format of all files is described by a yacc (1) grammar. %% file : field_list ; A file contains a field list. field_list : /* empty */ | field_list field ; A field list is zero or more fields. field : NAME '=' value ';' ; A field is set by giving a name and a value. value : NAME | INTEGER | STRING | structure | list ; A value may be a member of an enumeration (NAME), or an integer constant, or a literal string. More complex values may be constructed from these simple values. structure : '{' field_list '}' ; A structure is a grouped list of fields. list : '[' list_body ']' ; list_body : /* empty */ | value_list | value_list ',' ; value_list : value | value_list ',' value A list is a sequential list of values separated by commas. It may be empty, or it may have a trailing comma.

SEMANTICS

The types of the values must match those in the definition of the file. See the relevant man pages for more information.

Files which are rewritten by will lose any comments placed in them. When time fields are emitted by they are usually followed by a human readable date in a comment.

SEE ALSO

aegis(1)
a project change supervisor
aecattr(5)
change attribute file format
aecstate(5)
change state file format
aedir(5)
directory structures
aegstate(5)
state file
aepattr(5)
project attribute file format
aepconf(5)
project configuration file format
aepstate(5)
project state file format
aesub(5)
available command substitutions
aeuconf(5)
user configuration file format
aeustate(5)
user state file format

COPYRIGHT

version

Copyright Peter Miller; All rights reserved.

The program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use the ' -VERSion License' command. This is free software and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; for details use the ' -VERSion License' command.

AUTHOR

tab(;); l r l. Peter Miller;E-Mail:;millerp@canb.auug.org.au CW/\/\*;WWW:;http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/