Preliminary remarks

This Reference Guide for the HEPDB system consists of four parts:

1. An overview of the system.
2. A tutorial introduction.
3. A reference section with a description of each routine.
4. An appendix with details on system dependencies and technical implementation aspects.

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

      ftp asis01.cern.ch
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