This chapter is the guide for installing FMS in your application. It is an overview, with the details of individual subroutines provided by hyperlinks.

The interface between your application and FMS consists of the following three items:

1. Subroutine Calls

These are FMS subroutines that you call from your application. This manual includes a complete list of the FMS subroutines.

2. FMS Parameters

These are scalar variables that provide "special effects". FMS initializes them to default values. For most applications you do not need to change these parameters to get FMS running.

FMS Parameters are used to control:

This manual includes a complete list of the FMS Parameters.

3. FMS Files

Your matrix and vector data is maintained by FMS in the FMS Database. Depending on your problem size and machine configuration, FMS physically stores this database in memory, disk or both.

You create entries into the FMS Database by opening FMS files. Several options are provided to transfer data between your application and the FMS database, including read and write utilities.

With this background, we are now ready to proceed with installing FMS in your application.
3.1 Calling FMS Subroutines
3.2 Using FMS Parameters