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/*
 * misc.h -- Misc. routines (especially I/O) needed by many S3 applications.
 * 
 * **********************************************
 * CMU ARPA Speech Project
 *
 * Copyright (c) 1996 Carnegie Mellon University.
 * ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
 * **********************************************
 * 
 * HISTORY
 * $Log: misc.h,v $
 * Revision 1.4  2005/06/21 20:52:00  arthchan2003
 * 1, remove hyp_free, it is now in the implementation of dag.c , 2, add incomplete comments for misc.h. 3, Added $ keyword.
 *
 * Revision 1.3  2005/03/30 01:22:47  archan
 * Fixed mistakes in last updates. Add
 *
 * 
 * 26-Jul-04    ARCHAN (archan@cs.cmu.edu) at Carngie Mellon Unversity 
 *              Adapted  fro
 * 12-Nov-96	M K Ravishankar (rkm@cs.cmu.edu) at Carnegie Mellon University
 * 		Created.
 */


#ifndef _LIBFBS_MISC_H_
#define _LIBFBS_MISC_H_

#include "s3types.h"
#include "search.h"

/** \file misc.h
   \brief (s3.0 specific ) Miscellaneus operation used by differerent sphinx 3.0 family of tools.
 */


#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
#if 0
/* Fool Emacs. */
}
#endif

/** Return value: control file; E_FATAL if cannot open */
FILE *ctlfile_open (char *file /**< The input file name*/
		    );

/**
 * Read next control file entry.
 * @return: 0 if successful, -1 otherwise.
 */
int32 ctlfile_next (FILE *fp, 
		    char *ctlspec, 
		    int32 *sf_out, 
		    int32 *ef_out, 
		    char *uttid /**< The utterance ID */
		    );

/**
 * Close the control file. 
 */

void  ctlfile_close (FILE *fp /**< The input file pointer */
		     );

/** Load arguments from a file and create a null-terminated argv array.
 */
int32 argfile_load (char *file, /**< The file name for input argument */
		    char *pgm,  /**< The program name */
		    char ***argvout /**< Output: The argument */
		    );

/*
 * Read an Nbest file and create an array of hypotheses (array of hyp_t lists).
 * Return value: #hypotheses read, -1 if unsuccessful.
 */
int32 nbestfile_load(char *dir, char *uttid, srch_hyp_t *** hyplist_out);

void nbestlist_free(srch_hyp_t ** hyplist, int32 nhyp);

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif


#endif
