Real-time Laboratory System (RLS) Vol. II: Programmer's guide

This document is the Programmer's Manual for the Real-time Laboratory System (RLS). This manual is intended for advanced RLS users and maintenance support staff, who are required to enhance and support the system. After a brief overview of the system, there is a step-by-step description of how to interface additional commands in the RLS system. A more detailed description of the RLS system discusses the design and operation. Support modules and RLS commands are summarized before the discussion of the system support. Several appendices are given, describing RLS file formats and the build procedures for the system.