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Introduction

 

This document describes the interface to the LINCKS database system through the set of functions available in the LIBLINCKS library. In order to use these functions, the application programmer needs a clear understanding of what is offered by the LINCKS data base, including a distinct definition of the necessary terminology.

The first sections of this document present a summary of LINCKS terms from the viewpoint of an application programmer. Section 3 is a general overview recollecting the basic concepts. Section 4 describes the data structures used in the communication between LINCKS and an application program. Section 5 describes the version handling. Section 6 describes the functionality for handling composite objects. The concepts and functions for handling parallel editing notification (PEN) is covered in section 7. The section 8 contains an overview the command history implementation.

Section 9 contains an overview of the LIBLINCKS functions, followed by detailed descriptions of each function in Section 11. Sections 12 and 14 list error codes and some caveats.



Martin Sjolin
Thu Jun 15 20:41:59 MET DST 1995