Welcome to UDO!
You are reading the revised documentation of the revised program called UDO written by a quite overworked author that still is hoping that anybody outside there understands his quite unrevised knowledge of writing English documentations.
UDO is a powerful and multipurpose utility for making a documentation or any other text file that is needed in one text format or more. Though UDO is powerful it's quite easy to understand and to use.
If you take a look at the size of this documentation you will notice immediately that UDO has to be quite powerful. Many users get deterred of the size of this documentation and try to use UDO without having read it. Unfortunately, exactly these people will ask lots of questions later on without knowing that their questions could be answered by simply reading this documentation.
Due to this fact I want to note at the beginning of this documentation that you will only be able to use UDO in an efficient way if you read the complete documentation one time at least and if you experiment with the added examples.
Please take some time, sit down, take a cup of tea or coffee and read this documentation from the beginning to the end. You don't have to learn everything by heart but you should be able to find things quickly if there will be questions later on.
If you will detect parts where things are described in a too short, wrong or misleading way: please let me know! UDO is "my little baby" and it wouldn't be the first time that an author has forgotten to describe some important parts.
And if you have any problems with my English: please let me know, too! I did what I can but you without any doubts you will find some awful parts.
I hope that UDO will become an unrenounceable utility for you and you will have more time for the really important things.
Sundern, December 10th 1996
P.S.: UDO is Open Source since October 2001. To get the current version of UDO and this documentation visit http://www.udo-open-source.de.