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The first part of the guide provides an introduction to QEF that should be sufficient for most users to get started using QEF. |
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The first chapter introduces QEF with respect to its most important components, its rational, and its philosophy. The architecture of the qef program itself is illustrated. An example of the software process made possible by QEF is also presented. |
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In addition to this guide, the QEF system provides a rich set of documentation. This chapter lists the various sources of information on QEF and explains how to access their contents. |
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This chapter discusses the steps necessary to use the QEF system. In particular it describes defining the environment variables $PATH and $QTREE which may be required, the user's $HOME/.qtree directory, and an extremely useful alias or shell function qd. |
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There are a variety of tutorials available in the QEF documentation. This chapter presents three tutorials of increasing complexity to illustrate and introduce the major tools and concepts of the QEF system. This chapter also includes some miscellaneous notes that might be helpful in understanding the various languages and tools. |
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The QEF GUI, as the acronym suggests, provides interface between the user and the QEF tools. This chapter overviews and illustrates the more important of those interfaces. It should be noted that the qefgui is a user interface to the QEF tools and that everything that it provides is available via the shell. |
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The server program qdsrv provides a number of facilities used in the QEF system such as maintenance of and access to the database of tree paths, licence services, a global variable list, and the build numbers database. This chapter illustrates navigating the forest of trees through use of the qdsrv and an important shell alias/function called qd first described in Chapter 3. |
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This chapter discusses converting simple or straight-forward projects to QEF using out-of-the-box tools and a simple understanding of the material presented in the first six chapters. Its intention is to get the new user started. |
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