Patent ID: 6996769
Filing Date: 2006-02-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. In a computer system that implements an operating system, a method for generating documentation from a command specification of said operating system, said method comprising: parsing command files and command documentation content files for a syntactic structure wherein said computer system performs an internetworking function for a network; creating a parse tree from said syntactic structure wherein an extended help utility associated with said network extracts logic for traversing said parse tree and re-implements said logic on said operating system and wherein said parse tree is traversed in Command Line Interface; annotating said parse tree with documentation annotations; compiling said annotations into a first documentation file, wherein said documentation annotations comprises an intermediate representation of said syntactic structure and wherein said command documentation is separate from said command specification; and automatically generating a second documentation file, wherein said second documentation file comprises a high level format wherein said high level format comprises transparent human readable content that is localized in one or more of English and a non-English writable human language.