EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY

Organisation Européenne pour des Recherches Astronomiques dans l'Hémisphère Austral

Europäische Organisation für astronomische Forschung in der südlichen Hemisphäre

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Doc.No. VLT-MAN-ESO-17240-0637

Issue 2.4

Date 30/03/01

VLT Software

INS Common Software

Data Transfer Library - DXF

User Manual

Change Record

Issue/Rev.	Date	Section/Page affected	Reason/Initiation/Document/Remarks
1.0	18/04/94	All	First preparation
1.0	17/05/94	All	First issue corrected after review
1.0	18/07/94	All	Modified after some pending problems were solved.
2.0	16/02/95	All	Modified the manual according to the changes for version 2.0, providing a new interface to dxf.
2.1	20/06/95	Chapter 2, Man pages	Introduced cancellation of a data transfer (send across Error Reply), "done" flags in structures for Header, Data and Trailer.
2.2	06/05/96	Chapter 2, Man pages	Due to change from using CCS Message System to raw sockets for the communication, interface for dxfRecvData() has changed.
2.3	30/10/96	Chapter 2, Man pages	A test utility is now supported (dxfBencMark) to make it easy to generate the transfer rate transferring via a certain channel.
2.4	30/03/01	2.6, 3.1.2, 3.5, 5.2	Added file transfer mechanism between VLT WS environments (no NFS/ftp/rcp needed).

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