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Topfield Application Program
Chapter 10
Topfield Application Program
If you are good at programming with
C/C++
language, you
may make an executable program to run on the digital re-
ceiver. We call user-made programs TopfieldApplication Pro-
grams (TAP).
For
TAPs
writers,
Topfield
provides two versions of
gcc
compilier and TAP API (Ap-
plication
Program
Interface)
libraries
that
are
available
from Topfield’s website,
http:
//www.i-topfield.com/eng/
download/utility_list.asp
.
One is
Linux
version, and the
other is
Cygwin
version.
Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line inter-
face for
Microsoft Windows
.
Your TAPs will be run with the following conditions:
• A TAP’s file extension must be
tap
; if it has any other ex-
tension name, it will be ignored.