Contents

• Preliminary remarks
• Introduction
  • Principles of Operation
• Syntax of the data cards
  • Examples of items
• How keys are identified
  • Key length
  • System keys
  • User keys
  • '*' keys
• Description of FFREAD subroutines
  • Initialization
  • Set optional values
  • Define a key
  • Reading in the data cards
  • The user action routine
  • Get some internal and machine parameters
  • An example of use
  • For compatibility with FFREAD 1.0 - do not use
  • Internal and external routines used by FFREAD
  • Installation of FFREAD from the PAM file
• References
• Index