overview of OpenIsis builtin metadata

*	system parameters

This FDT includes the fields specified for the
>	Syspar	SYSPAR.PAR
file, augmented by system related (process wide) parameters
for the OpenIsis tools in the 700 range.


system (schema 0) parameters
| tag | C-name | name | description
| 5   | SPATH  | syspath | base for relative paths
| 700 | SLOGF  | logfile | name of logfile
| 701 | SLOGV  | v | loglevel: off, fatal, syserr, error, warn, info, verbose, trace, debug, all


schema parameters
| tag | C-name    | name | description
| 710 | SC_NAME   | name | name of schema
| 711 | SC_HOST   | host | hostname of server
| 712 | SC_PORT   | port | port of server
| 721 | SC_DFLTDB | defaultdb | dbname to send by default with requests


*	database parameters

These are the fields specified for the
>	Syspar	dbname.PAR and .EXP
files, augmented by per database parameters for OpenIsis in the 800s.

This also includes the metadata fields
-	worksheets
-	formats
-	selections
-	field
specified in the
>	Meta	FDT
although in OpenIsis, databases and FDTs do not need
to have a strict one-to-one relation (but typically have).


*	the internal request, query and formatting language

This contains the whole story of transforming one record into another.
All field ids are five digit (greater than 9999),
and structure tags are greater than 16383.


*	the other protocols language

This FDT will contain a collection of commonly used headers
from SMTP, NNTP, HTTP and similar stuff.


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	$Id: Builtin.txt,v 1.2 2003/06/02 17:18:34 kripke Exp $