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In subsequent releases of the LINCKS system, we hope to provide
some of the following features which are either missing or incomplete.
- Expanded use of command history. The current implementation of
LINCKS includes command history (which can easily be
disabled at compilation time), but this history is not used to
any great extent. We expect eventually to employ command history for
complex reasoning tasks.
- Propagate the difference between two object versions to
a different (third) object.
This application was developed as part of a study in propagation
of change.
- A programmer's manual. We hope that other researchers might
find the system a useful base upon which to do research. Our
emphasis has always been to back theoretical work with
implementation experience.
The programmer's manual will provide the tools
necessary for plugging your application into the LINCKS
system. If you wish to have preliminary versions of this prior
to the next release, please contact us.
- An external application interface, whereby external processes
would be able to interact with the system.
- A LINCKS to HTML Gateway (or a World Wide Web server) to a
LINCKS database, in order to enable WWW browsers such as mosaic
and lynx to browse LINCKS databases.
- A sample application, such as a reference management system.
Martin Sjolin
Mon May 29 19:53:45 MET DST 1995