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The MemCom Neutral File Manager (NM) transforms datasets into machine-independent format and back to binary format. It does not support the actual transport of data between different computers, i.e the exchange of data has to be done by external utilities, such as TCP/IP or NFS. Datasets are essentially exchanged in the following way:
Extract datasets from a MemCom database and write the information to a neutral file.
Transport the file.
Insert the information from the neutral file in a MemCom database.
Steps 1 and 3 are executed automatically by NM. Step 2 must be controlled by the user. Chapter 7 contains the Neutral File Manager reference pages for the C API and for the Fortran API. Note that the Neutral File Manager is not available in the Python module.