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.

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.

This document has been produced using LaTeX [1] 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):