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This section describes the C language application program interface
to CIFLIB.
The description of this interface has been divided into the following
subsections:
- Terminology
- Functions which construct and access CIF schema
- Functions which perform file operations, initialization, and
housekeeping
- Functions which operate on or provide information about data blocks
- Functions which operate on or provide information about categories
- Functions which operate on or provide information about category groups
- Functions which operate on or provide information about
subcategories
- Functions which operate on or provide information about data items
- Functions which return data item values
- Functions which update data item values
- Various item convenience functions
- Functions which return parent/child relationship information
- Functions which return parent/child values
- Functions which manage error handling and printing
- Missing functionality
John Westbrook
10/10/1997