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This document describes the GM message passing system. The document
describes the GM-1.1 API, which is both simpler to use and more powerful
that the GM-1.0 API. The 1.0 API will continue to be supported by the
GM libraries for the foreseeable future and GM-1.0 programs actually run
significantly faster under GM-1.1 than under GM-1.0, but new programs
should use the GM API as described in this document.
This document exists in the following formats:
- Adobe Acrobat (gm.pdf)
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best suited for printing (using
Adobe Acrobat Reader).
This format produces publication quality output. It can also
be read online if you have installed the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in for
your browser, but startup time can be quite large when doing so over a
slow network connection.
- ASCII (gm.txt)
-
best suited for email and ASCII-only environments. All graphical
figures are represented as "ASCII art".
- Gnu info format (gm.info)
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best suited for interactive Unix online use with searching and indexing.
Viewing this version of the documentation requires the Gnu `info'
program, available as source from the Free Software Foundation's
ftp server. All graphical
figures are represented as "ASCII art".
- Hypertext Markup Language (gm_toc.html)
-
best suited for online interactive viewing with your favorite browser.
All graphical figures are included as inline images.
- Monolithic Hypertext Markup Language (gm.html)
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Second-best suited for printing if you can't print the Adobe Acrobat
version.
The following typeface conventions are used in this document:
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Text like `this' represents user input.
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Text like
this represents code.
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Text like this represents variables.
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Text like `this' represents files.
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Text like
this() represents a function name, with the return type
and parameters unspecified. Such references should not be interpreted
to necessarily represent a function with no parameters and/or no return value.
The absence of a return value or parameters is indicated only by the
use of the keyword void, as in "void function(void)",
which indicates that function() returns nothing and requires no
parameter.
Note that the figures in this document are images with have been
rendered using Times as the serif typeface and Courier as the
fixed-width typeface, so the type in the images may appear somewhat
different from the text in the body of your document if your browser is
set to use different typefaces.
Numerical constants are represented in this document using the
C language conventions.
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