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