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+#summary CORE Application Programming Interface
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+= Introduction =
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+The CORE API is a sockets-based messaging system used by different CORE components to communicate. Other external programs can use the CORE API to interact with the emulation.
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+= Details =
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+ * the current CORE API spec can be found in PDF format here: http://pf.itd.nrl.navy.mil/core/core_api.pdf
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