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The Skimmer is also known to GLAST people as the Data Server Back End or Skimmer Back End. It has a command-like interface which can be used directly from a linux shell. If you skim your data thanks to a web interface, you are going through an additional layer known as the Data Server Front End, or Skimmer Web Application, or Skimmer Front-End. Here, you will only find the documentation of the back-end tool with a command-like interface, which we will call simply skimmer, but maybe this can also help you to understand the front-end layer and its web interface.

The skimmer is only usable on linux. For what concerns the external tools, skimmer v6r0 depends on :

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