The GLIDER system provides different types of nodes that differ in the activation and message processing. They are summarized in the Introduction. This chapter gives a detailed description and examples. In the following we refer to GLIDER common instructions and procedures to instructions and procedures that can be used in any type of node. In general are instructions or procedures whose action does not depend on the message being processed. They are:
ACT, BEGINSCAN, BLOCK, ASSI, CLRSTAT, DEACT, DEBLOCK, DBUPDATE, DOEVENT, DONODE, ENDSIMUL, EXTFEL, EXTR, FILE, FREE, GRAPH, INTI, IT, LOAD, MENU, NT, OUTG, PAUSE, PUTFEL, REL, REPORT, SCAN, SORT, STAT, STOPSCAN, TAB, TITLE, TRACE, TRANS, TSIM, UNLOAD, UNTRACE, UPDATE, USE.
BEGINSCAN and STOPSCAN are included here, because they can be used in any nodes as part of the associate instruction of SCAN.
The admissible Pascal and GLIDER instructions, functions and procedures, are listed in chapters 6, 7 and 8.