The SFL (Standard Function Library) from iMatix is a portable function library for C/C++ programs. The SFL is the result of many years of development, and is provided as Open Source software for the benefit of the Internet community. See iMatrix for a detailed description. The SFL provides about 450 functions that cover these areas:
- Compression, encryption, and encoding
- Datatype conversion and formatting
- Dates, times, and calendars
- Directory and environment access
- User and process groups
- Inverted bitmap indices
- Symbol tables
- Error message files
- Configuration files
- String manipulation and searching
- File access
- Internet socket access
- Internet programming (MIME, CGI)
- SMTP (e-mail) access
- Server (batch) programming
- Program tracing