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NAME

       asistant - interactive command-line ASIS tool

SYNOPSIS

       asistant program

DESCRIPTION

       ASIS is the Ada Semantic Interface Specification; it is an application programming interface that allows Ada programs to inspect the struc-
       ture of other Ada programs.  GNAT, the GNU Ada compiler, can parse Ada source text and produce tree files suitable for use through ASIS.

       asistant is an interactive command-line tool with a simple language that allows you to inspect the semantic information	about  a  compiled
       program.  Thus you can learn ASIS and try ASIS queries interactively before writing them in your programs.

AUTHOR

       ASIS-for-GNAT  was originally developed	by the ASIS-for-GNAT team at the Software  Engineering	Laboratory  of	the Swiss  Federal  Insti-
       tute  of Technology (LGL-EPFL) in Lausanne,  Switzerland, in cooperation with the Scientific  Research  Computer  Center of   Moscow  State
       University  (SRCC  MSU),  Russia,  with funding partially provided  by grants from the Swiss National  Science  Foundation  and	the  Swiss
       Academy	of  Engineering Sciences.     ASIS-for-GNAT    is     now    maintained    by	 AdaCore (http://www.adacore.com).

       This manual page was written by Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> for the Debian project,

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1995-2006, Free Software Foundation, Inc.

SEE ALSO

       gnat(1), gnatcheck(1), gnatelim(1), gnatmetric(1), gnatpp(1), gnatstub(1)

       A short introduction to asistant in /usr/share/doc/libasis-dev/tutorial/using_asistant/README

       info asis_ug ASIS-for-GNAT User's Guide, provided by by package
	      libasis-doc in the Info system, and in text, PDF and HTML formats in /usr/share/doc/libasis-doc.	(asis-doc is in the non-free  sec-
	      tion of Debian).

       info asis_rm ASIS-for-GNAT Reference Manual, same package.

GNU Ada Tools							     May 2006							       ASISTANT(1)