Aegis 4.24
Documentation

There is a variety of documentation available in PDF format. The PDF documents may be printed and bound to produce very useful reference material.

	DocBook Versions The documentation is produced using GNU Groff, producing only PDF output, without links. Ralph Smith has produced versions of the documentation using DocBook, generating HTML versions, and PDF versions with links.
	User Guide The Aegis User Guide contains information about how Aegis works, and the model of software development that Aegis embodies. It contains a worked example, to lead new users through some example changes. It contains information about configuring the various aspects of using Aegis. (See also Ralf's HTML version.)
	Reference Manual The Aegis Reference Manual contains all of the installation instructions, all of the man pages, and a permuted index. (See also Ralf's HTML version.)
	How To The Aegis How To contains “how to” perform a number of tasks in Aegis. (See also Ralf's HTML version.)
	Aegis, A Project Change Supervisor This is the original conference paper about Aegis. It gives a brief outline of the process and the benefits.
	Aegis Is Only For Software, Isn't It? This paper talks about how to use Aegis for managing DNS and for managing web pages.
	Recursive Make Considered Harmful This paper talks about the build process for large projects, and some of the pitfalls when using Make. There is also a German translation available, courtesy of CM Magazin.
	CVS Transition Guide The CVS Transition Guide contains information of use to CVS users who are converting their project to use Aegis, or who are thinking of doing do.
	Testing? What Testing? This paper talks about software attributes for supporting functional testing.
	Aegis Documentation for Developers Contains the documentation of internal Aegis API. This documentation is generated from the source code using Doxgen.
	Download a PDF Viewer All of the documents are in Adobe Acrobat (`pdf`) format. You can obtain free pdf readers, such as Adobe's Acroread can view and print Adobe PDF files across a broad range of hardware. GhostView is a program to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by providing a user interface for the ghostscript interpreter. It is based on ghostview. Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2. The non-X components of the package (pdftops, pdftotext, etc) also run on Win32 systems and should run on pretty much any system with a decent C++ compiler.

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