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.Dd November 14, 1999
.Dt MK_CMDS 1
.Os FreeBSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm mk_cmds
.Nd generate commands from table file
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Ar cmdtbl.ct
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility takes a command table file as input and produces a C source file
as output which is intended to be used with the subsystem library, libss.
This source file automatically includes
.Aq Pa ss/ss.h .
.Pp
The format of the table file to be specified is as follows:
.Pp
command_table name_of_table
.Pp
keyword ss_command_name,
.Qq description_of_command ,
command_binding
.Op ,command_binding ;
.Pp
keyword ss_command_name,
.Qq description_of_command ,
command_name,
(dont_option
.Op ", dont_option"
);
.Pp
end;
.Pp
Keyword is one of the following:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "unimplemented" -compact
.It request
A command that can be requested
.It unimplemented
An unimplemented command
.El
.Pp
Dont_option is one of the following:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "dont_summarize" -compact
.It dont_list
Do not list the command
.It dont_summarize
Do not list the command in the command summary
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
request ss_testfunction,
.Qq This is the explanation for testfunction ,
testfunction, tf;
.Pp
request ss_anothertest,
.Qq This is the explanation for anothertest ,
anothertest, (dont_list, dont_summarize);
.Pp
unimplemented ss_lasttest,
.Qq This is the explanation for lasttest ,
lasttest, lt;
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
utility
was written by the MIT Student Information Processing Board and
appeared before
.Fx 2.0.5 .
.Sh AUTHORS
This manual page was written by
.An Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
.Aq asmodai@wxs.nl