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The APT project design document

Abstract

This document is an overview of the specifications and design goals of the APT project. It also attempts to give a broad description of the implementation as well.

Copyright Notice

Copyright ©1997 Manoj Srivastava

APT, including this document, is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

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Contents

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Requirements
• 3 Procedural description
• 4 Modules and interfaces
• 5 Data flow and conversions analysis.