. These routines provide the base functionality for the recursive, heirarchical data structure supported in Karma. This package both defines the (transparent) data structure and the various allocation, deallocation and manipulation routines. Transfer of data structures to/ from disc/ connections is supplied by the dsxfr routines. Library: karma . Link With: -lkarma . ds_alloc_multi . Allocate a multi_array descriptor. ds_alloc_packet_desc . Allocate a packet descriptor. ds_alloc_data . Allocate packet data