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+====== CLIPS APG ======
-\\ {{clips:CLIPS%20Advanced%206.20_html_701a74d5.gif}}**Reference Manual**
+\\ **Reference Manual**
 \\ **Volume II**
-**Advanced Programming Guide**
+\\ \\ **XSI/CLIPS Advanced Programming Guide**
-\\ \\ //Version 6.xx//\\ \\
-//January 2010//
-\\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ **XSI/CLIPS Advanced Programming Guide**
 Version 6.xx , January 2010
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 \\ Since version 6.2 CLIPS contains two major enhancements. First, CLIPS now provides a mechanism which allows an embedded application to create multiple environments into which programs can be loaded. Second, an improved Windows 95/98/NT CLIPS interface is now available and the Macintosh CLIPS interface has been enhanced to support MacOS X. For a detailed listing of differences between the 6.x releases of CLIPS, refer to appendix B of the //Basic Programming Guide// and appendix C of the //Advanced Programming Guide//.
-**CLIPS Documentation**
+==== CLIPS Documentation ====
-\\ Two documents are provided with CLIPS.
-\\ • The //CLIPS Reference Manual// which is split into the following parts:
-\\ • [[clips:bpg|//Volume I - The Basic Programming Guide//]], which provides the definitive description of CLIPS syntax and examples of usage.
-\\ • [[clips:apg|//Volume II - The Advanced Programming Guide//]], which provides detailed discussions of the more sophisticated features in CLIPS and is intended for people with extensive programming experience who are using CLIPS for advanced applications.
+Two documents are provided with CLIPS.
-\\ • [[clips:ifg|//Volume III - The Interfaces Guide//]], which provides information on machine specific interfaces.
+The //CLIPS Reference Manual// which is split into the following parts:
-\\ • The //CLIPS User’s Guide// which provides an introduction to CLIPS rule based and object oriented programming and is intended for people with little or no expert system experience.
+  * [[clips:bpg|Volume I - The Basic Programming Guide]], which provides the definitive description of CLIPS syntax and examples of usage.
+  * [[clips:apg|Volume II - The Advanced Programming Guide]], which provides detailed discussions of the more sophisticated features in CLIPS and is intended for people with extensive programming experience who are using CLIPS for advanced applications.
+  * [[clips:ifg|Volume III - The Interfaces Guide]], which provides information on machine specific interfaces.
+  * The //CLIPS User’s Guide// which provides an introduction to CLIPS rule based and object oriented programming and is intended for people with little or no expert system experience.
 ====== Acknowledgements ======
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-\\ ====== Appendix C   Update Release Notes ======
-The following sections denote the changes and bug fixes for CLIPS versions 6.05, 6.1, and 6.2.
-===== C.1 Version 6.2 =====
-• **Environments** -- It is now possible in an embedded application to create multiple environments into which programs can be loaded (see section 9).
-\\ • **External Function Interface** - Several new functions have been added including:
-\\ **GetClassDefaultsMode** (see section 4.12.10)
-**SetClassDefaultsMode** (see section 4.12.19)
-\\ • **Run-time Programs** -- Support for environments requires some changes in code for loading run-time programs (see section 5).
-\\ • **Compiler Directives** -- Two new flags have been added: ENVIRONMENT_API_ONLY and ALLOW_ENVIRONMENT_GLOBALS.
-\\ • **New Source Files** -- New source files have been added (see section 2.1 for a complete list of source files):
-\\ **envrnmnt.c**
-**envrnmnt.h**
-===== C.2 Version 6.1 =====
-• **C++ Compatible** -- The CLIPS source code can now be compiled using either an ANSI C or C++ compiler. Minimally, non-ANSI C compilers must support full ANSI style function prototypes and the void data type in order to compile CLIPS.
-\\ • **Obsolete External Function Interface Changes** - The following functions should be replaced with the specified functions. If clips.h is included in your C files, macros will automatically map these functions to their new names.
-\\ **CLIPSFunctionCall** (use **FunctionCall** instead)
-**ExitCLIPS** (use **ExitRouter** instead)
-**GetcCLIPS** (use **GetcRouter** instead)
-**InitializeCLIPS** (use **InitializeEnvironment** instead)
-**PrintCLIPS** (use **PrintRouter** instead)
-**UngetcCLIPS** (use **UngetcRouter** instead)
-\\ • **Obsolete Constants and Variables Changes** - The following constants and variables should be replaced with the specified replacements. If clips.h is included in your C files, macros will automatically map the old names to their new names.
-\\ **CLIPS_FALSE** (use **FALSE** instead)
-**CLIPS_TRUE** (use **TRUE** instead)
-**CLIPSFalseSymbol** (use **FalseSymbol** instead)
-**CLIPSTrueSymbol** (use **TrueSymbol** instead)
-**WCLIPS** (use **WPROMPT** instead)
-\\ • **Source File Name Changes** - The names of the following source files have been changed:
-\\ **clipsmem.h** (use **memalloc.h** instead)
-**memory.c** (use **memalloc.c** instead)
-\\ • **Compiler Directives** -- Some of the compiler directive flags in the file setup.h have been changed. The CLP_TEXTPRO and CLP_HELP flags have been renamed to TEXTPRO_FUNCTIONS and HELP_FUNCTIONS. The ANSI_COMPILER flag has been removed.
-\\ • **External Function Interface** - Several new functions have been added including:
-\\ **GetNextInstanceInClassAndSubclasses** (see section 4.13.15)
-\\ • **New Source Files** -- Several new source files have been added (see section 2.1 for a complete list of source files):
-\\ **parsefun.c**
-**parsefun.h**
-**proflfun.c**
-**proflfun.h**
-**sortfun.c**
-**sortfun.h**
-===== C.3 Version 6.05 =====
-• **Compiler Directives**   The CLP_EDIT flag in the file setup.h has been renamed to EMACS_EDITOR.
-\\ • **External Function Interface** - Several new functions have been added including:
-\\ **BatchStar** (see section 4.1.23)
-**Build** (see section 4.1.24)
-**Eval** (see section 4.1.25)
-**FactExistp** (see section 4.4.20)
-**FactSlotNames** (see section 4.4.21)
-**GetFactList** (see section 4.4.22)
-**LoadFactsFromString** (see section 4.4.23)
-**LoadInstancesFromString** (see section 4.13.26)
-**RestoreInstancesFromString** (see section 4.13.27)