
		README for Type Conversion library of TACO 
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The TACO type conversion library is accessed from clients, applications and
any program which need to convert the "TACO Kernel types" to and from a basic
C type.

For the moment only the conversion to and from string (C type) is available.

Files needed to build the TACO conversion library are :

	tc_str.c - Contains all the functions to convert a TACO Kernel type to
                   a C string and the other way (convert a C string to a TACO
                   Kernel type).

        Makefile - Multi-Plateform (HPUX and Solaris) GNU Makefile

                   Main targets are :

                   (o) "all" to make shared version and archive version of the
                       conversion library (libtcapi.sl and libtcapi.a).

                   (o) "libtcapi.a" to make only archive version of the type
                       conversion library.

                   (o) "libtcapi.sl" or "libtcapi.so" (it depends on the
                       architecture : first one on HPUX the second on SOLARIS)
                      to make only the shared version of the conversion library.

                   (o) "install" to copy only the shared library in the lib
                       directory ../lib/$OS.

                   (o) "clean" to remove all object files

                   (o) "clobber" to remove all object files and all libraries.
                   

To be able to test and to debug the library a test application is developped.
It can be found under ../test_lib directory.

                   
