+++Date last modified: 05-Jul-1997

This is the new C++ release of my comment utilities, a C version of which was
already in a previous SNIPPETS release. There is not much documentation -- I
hope the code speaks for itself.

The "heart" of the program is implemented as a finite state machine which 
parses the source files and also is an abstract base class for all the 
utilities.

There are four utilities:
  CMTCONVR - comment converter: converts C++ comments to C comments.
  CMTCOUNT - comment counter: checks the balance of /* */ and counts
             commented lines.
  CMTREMOV - comment remover: removes comments from a source file
             (output file contains plain code)
  CMTXTRAC - comment extractor: extracts comments from source file
             (output file contains all comments)

The package contains also a test file, CMTTESTS.C which has a bunch of
different styles of commenting -- some of which are quite perverse :-)

        // Albert                      email: jla@to.icl.fi