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These documents describe FramerD, a database designed for generating, managing, and using very large pointer-intensive data sets. It is especially appropriate for structures such as semantic networks, domain ontologies, and hypermedia. The FramerD implementation includes `fdscript`, a Scheme-based very high level language especially designed to support text processing, artificial intelligence, and multimedia scripting. FramerD and FDScript also support international programming with Unicode, multi-threaded programming with the Posix threads model, and a novel text analysis package for reading and interacting with outside services and databases.

User's Guide to FramerD
[Installation] [Listeners] [Customizing FramerD] [Configuration Files] [An Extended Example] [Shell Commands] [Using FramerD from Emacs] [Invoking FDScript]

GNU General Public License
FramerD and FDScript are released under the GNU General Public License and are free of charge under that license.

FramerD Concepts
[OIDs and the Object Database] [Persistent Indices] [Frames in FramerD] [Searching for Frames] [The DTYPE Protocol]

Programming in FDScript
[Distributed Programming] [Choices] [Hash tables, sets, etc.] [Formatted Output] [OS functions including time, resources, and users] [Accessing Information about Files] [Internationalization] [Writing Shell Scripts] [Programming in the Large] [Remote and Local Subjobs] [Sequence Functions] [Dirty macros] [Text matching, searching, and substitution] [Specialized parsers for HTML & XML, EMAIL messages, and English morphology.]

Writing FramerD Servers
[Simple Servers] [Security Concerns] [More Complicated Servers] [Administering Servers] [Hairy fdserver invocations]

Writing FramerD Web Applications
[Generating Markup] [HTML builtins] [Making links] [Complex Links] [Dyamic Pages from FDScript] [Script Variables] [Using HTML forms] [CGI-VAR and CGI-INIT] [Cookies] [Frames to Anchors] [HTTP generation: connection control and metadata] [Using mod_fdserv] [Configuring your web server]

Programming FramerD from C
[Directory Structure] [C Types] [Exception Handling] [String Streams] [Lisp Pointers] [Unicode Representation] [Lisp Types] [Evaluator Types] [Implementing Modules]

FramerD/FDScript C API

Why Should I use FramerD?

FramerD: Representing Knowledge in the Large from the IBM Systems Journal (Volume 35, Numbers 3&4, 1996)

Tripp Lilley's Very Experimental API Tutorials, an documentary experience introducing FramerD low-level fundamentals