High-Level and Utility API Description

This chapter presents a description of the High-Level API commands organized by major topics, as mentioned in the following list:

This chapter provides an overview of the high-level API functions and utility commands. The full details of the commands described herein may be found in the following appendices:

The high-level commands are characterized by one or more of the following characteristics:

Arguments to the high-level APIs are passed in one of the following two ways:

Read the individual description pages in the Appendices to determine which arguments are passed by reference and by value.