#%Module1.0 module-whatis "Models-3 Input/Output Applications Programming Interface" module-url "https://www.cmascenter.org/ioapi/" module-license "GNU GPLv2" module-maintainer "Achim Gsell " module-help " The Models-3 Input/Output Applications Programming Interface (I/O API) is a selective and direct-access programming interface to the data: you tell the system what variables and dates and times you're talking about and it figures all the stuff about record numbers, etc., for itself. Also, you don't have to read the data in consecutive order, or to write it in order, either -- you just ask for what you want, and the I/O API finds it for you (although there are moderate performance penalties for writing data out-of- order). The files are self-describing files -- that is, the file headers have all the dimensioning and descriptive information needed about the data in them. "