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Communication Links
Links are communication channels, i.e., something SINGULAR can read from or write to.

SINGULAR supports the following link types:
Ascii text
any data can be written; read/write is not the fastest, but the most general

DBM (Standard Unix database)
provides access to data stored in a data base

MP file
stores data in binary and very compact format Multi Protocol (MP) format; read/write is very fast

MP TCP (Socket based, Client/Server links)
exchanges data in binary format (MPP) between processes (on the same or different computers); data exchange is very efficient
SINGULAR can currently communicate with itself (parallel/distributed computations), with Mathematica, and MuPAD (i.e., SINGULAR can be called from these programs and vice-versa).

Sao Carlos, 08/02 http://www.singular.uni-kl.de