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# Initial Remark

This manual accompanies the initial release of the LINK system, an environment for combinatorial computing. The system is useful not only as a collection of C++ libraries, but as an computing environment for manipulating and visualizing graphs and hypergraphs. It is menu driven for accessibility and includes a Scheme command-line interface for power and flexibility. This Scheme interface is based on Erick Gallesio's STk package [6], so LINK inherits all of STk's functionality. Some examples of this include regular expression processing and socket objects; however, no STk functionality will be discussed in this manual. See the STk manual [6] for details.

All of the coding examples in this manual were included via automatic mechanisms which run the code and produce LATEXoutput. This first release includes many examples and lists of methods without much textual description. The manual will continue to fill out during the first few years of public LINK usage, and updates will be included with subsequent releases.