NAME

       asistant - interactive command-line ASIS tool

SYNOPSIS

       asistant program

DESCRIPTION

       ASIS  is  the  Ada  Semantic  Interface  Specification;  it  is an application programming
       interface that allows Ada programs to inspect the structure of other Ada programs.   GNAT,
       the  GNU  Ada  compiler, can parse Ada source text and produce tree files suitable for use
       through ASIS.

       asistant is an interactive command-line tool with a simple language  that  allows  you  to
       inspect  the  semantic  information about a compiled program.  Thus you can learn ASIS and
       try ASIS queries interactively before writing them in your programs.

AUTHOR

       ASIS-for-GNAT was  originally  developed   by  the  ASIS-for-GNAT  team  at  the  Software
       Engineering   Laboratory   of   the Swiss  Federal  Institute  of Technology (LGL-EPFL) in
       Lausanne,  Switzerland, in cooperation with the Scientific  Research  Computer  Center  of
       Moscow  State  University  (SRCC MSU), Russia,  with funding partially provided  by grants
       from the Swiss National  Science  Foundation  and  the  Swiss   Academy   of   Engineering
       Sciences.        ASIS-for-GNAT       is        now       maintained       by       AdaCore
       (http://www.adacore.com).

       This manual page was written by Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> for the Debian
       project,

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1995-2006, Free Software Foundation, Inc.

SEE ALSO

       gnat(1), gnatcheck(1), gnatelim(1), gnatmetric(1), gnatpp(1), gnatstub(1)

       A       short      introduction      to      asistant      in      /usr/share/doc/libasis-
       dev/tutorial/using_asistant/README

       info asis_ug ASIS-for-GNAT User's Guide, provided by by package
              libasis-doc  in  the  Info  system,  and  in  text,  PDF  and   HTML   formats   in
              /usr/share/doc/libasis-doc.  (asis-doc is in the non-free section of Debian).

       info asis_rm ASIS-for-GNAT Reference Manual, same package.