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Preliminary remarks

This manual serves at the same time as a Reference manual and as a User Guide for the HBOOK system. After a short introductory chapter, where the basic ideas are explained, the following chapters describe in detail the calling sequences for the different user routines.

In this manual examples are in monotype face and strings to be input by the user are underlined. In the index the page where a routine is defined is in bold, page numbers where a routine is referenced are in normal type.

In the description of the routines a * following the name of a parameter indicates that this is an output parameter. If another * precedes a parameter in the calling sequence, the parameter in question is both an input and output parameter.

This document has been produced using LaTeX [1] with the cernman style option, developed at CERN. A gzip compressed PostScript file hbook.ps.gz, containing a complete printable version of this manual, can be obtained from any CERN machine by anonymous ftp as follows (commands to be typed by the user are underlined):

    ftp asisftp.cern.ch
    Connected to asis00.cern.ch.
    220 asis00 FTP server (Version wu-2.4(2)...) ready.
    Name (asisftp:username): ftp
    Password: your_mailaddress
    230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
    ftp> cd cernlib/doc/ps.dir
    ftp> get hbook.ps.gz    (type get hbook.ps for the uncompressed version)
    ftp> quit


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