bsd man page for shortc

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NAME
       shortc - generate short preprocessor definitions for long C identifiers

SYNOPSIS
       shortc [ -symlen ] [ -p ] [ -s ] file ...

DESCRIPTION
       Shortc  searches for instances of long identifiers in the specified files.  In its normal mode of operation shortc generates a list of pre-
       processor definitions that are unique in their first seven characters.

       The shortc output is then included into each file (or a common header file) which is processed using a flexnames version of cpp.

       If no files are given shortc reads from the standard input.

       The symlen argument may be used to change the default long identifier length from seven characters.

       The -s option generates a sed script instead of preprocessor definitions.  The -p option causes shortc to parse preprocessor lines.   These
       options are most useful together when flexnames support is not available from cpp.

BUGS
       When using cpp, preprocessor symbols must be weeded out by hand.  Otherwise they will cause (innocuous) redefinition messages.

       The -p option will incorrectly parse include file names which must be removed by hand from the output.

3rd Berkeley Distribution					 September 5, 1988							 SHORTC(1)