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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 25, 1997
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In order to provide a front-end processor wherein additional functions for retrieving external resources can be easily supplemented optionally without user's complicated environment setting, a front-end processor of the invention, having a main processing section (2) and retrieval sections (4) controlled through the main processing section, comprises: notification means (10) provided in each of the retrieval sections for transmitting initialization information to the main processing section when a file of said each of the retrieval sections is deployed in a main memory area; and initialization means (7) provided in the main processing section for initializing default environments of the front-end processor according to the initialization information transmitted from each of the retrieval sections.