Glossary

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DRIVER HEADER

This part is the lower end of the DOV file and is interperted by the view Driver.

DOV

DOV is an acrnonym Document Organization View and is the extenison for the file which contains the view to be mounted.

OBJECT STORE

This refers to the location in the directory structure where the files are actually stored in the flat file format.this can be directory or can be a partition as according to your need. The path to this directory is needed when mounting views.

STICKY DIRECTORIES

These directories are directories with the query containing "~OR TEXT parent like dirname". This ensures that directories created under this directory are never delinked from the directory. This feature miminc the working of standard filesystem directories.

RECEPTOR DIRECTORIES

This are special directories which no subdirectories and the queryname ending with word RECEPTOR. This directories are capable of converting DOV files Pasted into them into full fledged views.

View

Views are directory structures implemented by ORION. They are called views because the just present data organized in different format.

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