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C2HTML(1)		     General Commands Manual		       C2HTML(1)

NAME
     c2html - generates highlighted html-files from C source

SYNOPSIS
     c2html [options] [filename...]

DESCRIPTION
     This manual page documents how to use c2html.  If no arguments are given on
     the command line of c2html, it reads from stdin and writes to stdout.

     If  invoked  with filenames as arguments c2html will write it's output into
     new files. Names of output files  are  generated by  appending  ".html"  to
     the corresponding input filename.

     You can convert both .c and .h files with c2html.

   Installing as a CGI program
     c2html  can  be  installed as a CGI program and convert source files on the
     fly. In order to set this up for apache the webmaster has to  add	the  two
     lines

	     AddType text/x-c .c .h
	     Action text/x-c /cgi-bin/c2html

     to the webserver configuration file.  c2html depends on the webserver prop-
     erly  setting  environment  variable PATH_TRANSLATED to the pathname of the
     source file.  If c2html has been compiled with option -DCOMPRESSION=1  then
     it will invoke gzip to compress the generated HTML before sending it to the
     requesting browser. Of course c2html takes care to check if the browser ac-
     cepts gzip encoding.

   OPTIONS
     --     Interpret  all following arguments on the command line as filenames.
	    This is useful, if you want to convert files beginning with a '-'.

     -b filename
	    Insert the file 'filename' after  converted  data  and  before  HTML
	    footer. See also the -s option.

     -c     Turns  off CGI-script detection and HTTP header generation.  This is
	    needed to use c2html as a subcommand in another CGI script.

     -h filename
	    Insert the file 'filename' after the HTML  headers	and  before  the
	    converted data. See also the -s option.

     -i     Generate  an  index  only.	This  will generate a list of references
	    (HREF's) to the labels that c2html creates for your source file. The
	    references are created as list items (<li>) in an  HTML  list.  Each
	    line has the form
	    <li><a href="#name">prototype()</a></li>
	    so	they can be used directly as an index list, or further parsed by
	    another script.
	    If you want the index at the top of the source file, you will need a
	    wrapper script like this one:

	      #! /bin/sh
	      echo "Content-type: text/html"
	      echo ""
	      echo "<html>"
	      echo "<head><title>$PATH_TRANSLATED</title>"
	      echo "<meta name=\"generator\""
	      echo "content=\"`c2html -V`\">"
	      echo "</head>"
	      echo "<body>"
	      echo "<h1>Source of $PATH_TRANSLATED</h1>"
	      echo "<ul>Structures and functions"
	      cat $PATH_TRANSLATED | c2html -isc
	      echo "</ul>"
	      echo "<hr></hr>"
	      cat $PATH_TRANSLATED | c2html -sc
	      echo "</body></html>"
	      exit

     -n     Number lines and label them with 'line' followed by the line number.
	    Empty lines get no label, but the linecounter will count them never-
	    theless. With this feature you can refer to special  lines	of  code
	    from other parts of the generated file or from external files with a
	    line like this:

	    <A HREF="foo.c.html#line301">Go to line 301</A>

     -N     Similar to -n , but also blank lines get a label.

     -s     With  this	option	you can suppress the generation of HTML headers.
	    This is especially useful together with options -b file and -h file.

     -t title
	    Set the title to 'title'. The default is the filename you  converted
	    or	"stdin" if reading from stdin. This option is only used if -s is
	    not set.

     -u     Print usage information.

     -w width
	    sets the WIDTH attribute for HTML tag <PRE>. If this option  is  not
	    used  a  default of 80 is assumed.	(Currently most browsers are ig-
	    noring this attribute).

     -x size
	    use size for tab size (default 8, max 80).

     -V     reports the version number of c2html.

EXIT STATUS
     c2html returns 0 on success, 1 if input files are not existing/readable,  2
     if  output  files are not creatable/writable, 3 if invoked with illegal op-
     tions and 4 if gzip cannot be invoked.

AUTHORS
     Florian Schintke <schintke@cs.tu-berlin.de>
     Martin Kammerhofer <mkamm@gmx.net> wrote the CGI feature.
     Rob Ewan <rob@ewan.com> wrote the indexing feature.

SEE ALSO
     java2html(1), pas2html(1), perl2html(1).

								       C2HTML(1)

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