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Online Information for the Mjølner System

Release 5.0
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From this page, you have access to information on the Mjølner System.

Contents

What's New
Frequently Asked Questions
Manuals and Tutorials
The Mjølner System
BETA Language and Compiler
Basic Libraries, Containers, and other Utilities
Graphical User Interface Frameworks
Grammar Tools and Metaprogramming
Mjølner Integrated Development Tool
Persistence and Distribution
Relational Database Interface
Runtime Issues
List of tutorials
List of reference manuals
UNIX Manual pages
Grammars
Bibliography
Navigating the manuals
Comments on Manuals
Editorial Note
Browser Requirements

Manuals for other releases of the Mjølner System can be found on the Mjølner System Online Information Home Page .


What's New


Frequently Asked Questions:

There are a number of FAQ's, specific to the Mjølner System:


Manuals and Tutorials:

The Mjølner System

BETA Language and Compiler:

Basic Libraries, containers and other utilities

Graphical User Interface Frameworks

Grammar Tools and Metaprogramming

Mjølner Integrated Development Tool:

Persistence and Distribution:

Relational Database Interface:

Runtime Issues:


Manual pages:

There are UNIX-alike manual pages for a number of Mjølner System tools. These manual pages are available here:

These man-pages are also available via the standard UNIX man-system.


Grammars:

A number of the grammars used in the Mjølner System are available in HTML below:


Navigating the manuals

The manuals referred from this page each describe a certain sub-component of the Mjølner System. You can always get back to this page by clicking on the Top button, which is available on every page.

The buttons on the pages have the following meaning:

Next
The manuals are each organized in a manner that allows them to be read sequentially. The Next buttons brings you to the next page in this sequence.
Previous
The Previous button brings you to the previous page in the sequential order of the manaul.
Top
The Top button brings you to this page.
Contents
The Contents button brings you to the table of contents for the manual. In interface descriptions the Contents button brings you to the list of interface descriptions. Use the Up button from this list to get back to the table of contents, the interface descriptions belong to.
Index
The Index button bring you to the alphabetic index of the manual. In interface descriptions the Index button brings you to the alphabetic index of the interface descriptions only.
Up
The Up button bring you from a sub-section of a manual to the major section of the manual, the subsection is part of. In the main index for an interface description, the Up button brings you back to the table of contents, the interface descriptions belong to.
PDF
To ease printing, most manuals have a PDF button on the front page. Clicking this page brings you to a single file in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). You must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view this file. The PDF files are not yet are nice-looking, as we would like, but they allow you to print the whole document in an easy way. Naturally you can instead print individual pages from your browser using the HTML version.
Print
A few manuals have a Print button. What this does is to bring you to an HTML page where the whole manual is collected in one file. This can then be easily printed from your browser.
In the Interface Descriptions and Grammars - which are frame based - the Print buttons require JavaScript enabled. If so they print the body frame of the page (thus excluding navigation buttons in the print-out).
Grayed out versions of the buttons means that the link is not avaiable on that page.

Interface Descriptions

What is above referred to as an interface description is a set of pages containing abstract presentations of libraries. The abtract presentations only include the names and enter/exit parameters of the patterns. The identifiers in boldface in the interface descriptions are the ones that are listed in the alphabetic index.


Comments on Manuals:

You are invited to submit comments, suggestions, typos, errors, etc. concerning the Mjølner System manuals through:


Editorial Note:

This is the first version of the HTML documentation for the Mjølner System. There are some parts of the documentation that are not yet as nice as we would like it to be.

Browser Requirements:

To get the most out of these manual pages, you should use a HTML browser with support for These requirements are met by e.g. Netscape Navigator 4.0 (or later) and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (or later). Make sure you have Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript enabled in your browser preferences.

If your browser does not meet the above requirements, the pages may look less pleasant, but should still be readable.


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