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This chapter provides brief descriptions of the core documentation. For convenience, it is divided into sections that follow the structure of the printed documentation kits. See Section 1.3.1 for information about the online Documentation Library structure.
Manuals for the end user contain the information you need to install and configure a DIGITAL UNIX system, bring it up on a network, and use it. The documentation in this category is grouped in three primary areas: startup documentation, general user documenation, and system and network management documentation.
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The startup documentation is packaged in printed form with your DIGITAL UNIX media. It consists of the documents you need to install, configure, and begin using your system.
The Release Notes for Version 4.0D are for all users of the DIGITAL UNIX operating system. This book includes the following information:
An overview of the new and changed features of the Version 4.0D software
Announcements about features and interfaces that are scheduled for removal in future versions of DIGITAL UNIX
Information about installing the software
Information that is relevant to specific DIGITAL Alpha processors
Information about the base operating system
Information about the development environment
Information about the graphical interfaces
Additions and corrections to the books in the DIGITAL UNIX documentation set
DIGITAL recommends that you read the Release Notes before installing or using the DIGITAL UNIX operating system.
This manual describes the procedures for performing an update installation, a basic installation, or an advanced installation of the DIGITAL UNIX product on all supported processors. It also discusses system management procedures in a standalone environment.
This foldout card provides easy access to the information needed to upgrade a DIGITAL UNIX system to the next version. Update installations preserve disk partitions, file systems, and file customizations.
The information on this card is covered in detail in Chapter 2 of the Installation Guide.
This manual provides a technical overview of the DIGITAL UNIX operating system, focusing on the networking subsystem, the file system, virtual memory, and the development environment. In addition, the manual lists all system limits.
You are reading the online version of the Documentation Overview. The Glossary and Master Index are also available on line. For more information, see the New and Changed Features section in the preface.
The printed version of this manual has three parts:
Part 1 describes the books in the DIGITAL UNIX documentation set.
Part 2 provides a glossary of DIGITAL UNIX terms.
Part 3 provides a master index for the DIGITAL UNIX documentation set. The index entries are designed to help users determine which book references information on a particular topic.
Note
The Master Index was not revised for this release. Therefore, some of the entries for books that were revised since the Version 4.0 release may be inaccurate in both the printed and online versions.
This foldout card provides fingertip access to the format of common
user commands, such as
cd,
chmod,
lpr, and
man.
The card also describes flags
that are commonly used with each command.
Additionally, this card provides command summaries for the
vi,
emacs,
Mail, and
mail
applications, and it summarizes the rules for forming regular
expressions.
It provides a description of command control symbols (such as
|, the pipe symbol) and gives definitions of shell environment variables
and metacharacters.
This poster illustrates the core DIGITAL UNIX documentation, as well as information about the reference pages and device driver documentation. With it, you can tell at a glance which books in the documentation set are of interest to you and how you can find them.
General user documentation contains important information for all users of the DIGITAL UNIX operating system. The books in this category provide introductory information for people who are unfamiliar with DIGITAL UNIX:
This manual provides an introduction to DIGITAL's implementation of the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), an easy method of interacting with the the DIGITAL UNIX operating system.
For users migrating from DECwindows Motif to CDE, this book serves as an introduction to the new environment, providing information on how to use CDE to complete tasks previously done by using DECwindows.
For users who are new to desktop environments, this book provdes quick-start information on topics such as logging into the system, navigating the system, and using and managing the desktop and applications.
This book can be used in conjunction with the Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide.
This manual introduces the basic features of the DIGITAL UNIX operating system. It describes how to use the command line interface and to perform such tasks as copying files and creating directories. It also describes how to use the shells and their built-in commands.
Although this manual is primarily for users who have little or no familiarity with UNIX-compatible systems, experienced users can find useful shortcuts and tips.
This manual describes how to customize the appearance and behavior of CDE. It provides information on topics such as the following:
Customizing system initialization, login, and session initiation
Adding applications and providing interface representations for applications and their data
Configuring desktop processes, applications, and data across the network
Customizing desktop services such as window management, printing, colors, and fonts
This book is intended for users who want to perform customizations that cannot be accomplished using the desktop user interface. This book is also intended for system administrators; many of the tasks in this book require superuser permission.
This manual describes the basic features of the CDE and describes how to use the desktop and the desktop applications. It expands upon some of the topics in the CDE Companion and provides figures of the graphical interface as it is displayed on workstation screens.
This manual describes how to log on to a DIGITAL UNIX workstation and begin working with the DECwindows Motif interface. It also explains how to customize the DECwindows environment, how to use advanced features of Mail, and how to use AccessX software.
This manual is primarily for users who have little or no familiarity
with computers or those with little knowledge of UNIX-compatible systems.
Advanced users might refer to this manual for its description of desktop
applications, such as
dxdiff, and for topics such as using
keyboard shortcuts with DECwindows.
This manual provides information needed by users and system administrators who are working on DIGITAL UNIX systems that have the optional enhanced security subsets installed. It also provides information needed by developers who are writing programs that will run on secure systems. The enhanced security features help protect systems or data from access by unauthorized users.
This manual also provides information about security on systems that do not have the enhanced security subsets installed.
The information is organized as follows:
Part 1 describes how to use the DIGITAL UNIX operating system with enhanced security from the command line.
Part 2 describes how to administer the operating system's enhanced security, which includes enhanced passwords and the audit subsystem. The Security Integration Architecture (SIA) is also discussed. This part of the manual assumes prior knowledge and experience administering secure systems.
Part 3 describes how to write programs that run on the DIGITAL UNIX operating system with enhanced security. This part assumes general programming knowledge, including knowing how to use DIGITAL UNIX programming tools.
System and network management documentation provides information on topics such as configuring systems and networks, maintaining disks, and using system administration tools.
DECevent provides an interface between a system user and the operating system's event logger. DECevent can help system administrators to troubleshoot DIGITAL UNIX system problems.
This manual describes the DECevent command features related to the translation and reporting of events on DIGITAL UNIX operating systems. It contains an overview of the utility, information on how to obtain help for the utility, and information about all the commands necessary to translate event logs on DIGITAL UNIX operating systems.
Prestoserve speeds up synchronous disk writes, including NFS server access, by reducing the amount of disk I/O.
This manual describes how to to manage and maintain a DIGITAL UNIX system that includes the optional Prestoserve hardware and software.
The manual describes using the
dbx,
kdbx, and
kdebug
debuggers to find problems in kernel
code.
It also describes how to write a
kdbx
utility extension
and how to create and analyze a crash dump file.
This manual is for system administrators responsible for modifying, rebuilding, and debugging the kernel configuration. It is also for system programmers who need to debug their kernel-space programs.
The Logical Storage Manager (LSM) provides help to more effectively manage disk resources, gain high data availability, and increase I/O performance. It provides the ability to divide disks into subdisks, concatenate disks, stripe data across disks, and mirror data for duplication of data.
This manual provides system administrators with a thorough knowledge
of LSM concepts and procedures involved with disk and volume management.
It also describes in detail the three LSM interfaces used to perform LSM disk
management operations: the graphical-user interface (dxlsm),
the character-cell menu interface (voldiskadm), and the
command line interface.
This manual provides information on establishing a DIGITAL UNIX system on a network and configuring network software such as NFS and BIND. It also explains how to manage a network and network applications and how to solve problems that might arise.
This manual is for experienced system and network administrators who have knowledge of TCP/IP networking concepts and network configuration. Readers should also have knowledge of operating system concepts, commands, and configuration.
POLYCENTER Performance Manager is a real-time peformance manager that allows system administrators to detect and correct performance problems in DIGITAL UNIX sytems. The three primary components of the Performance Manager are a graphical user interace, the Performance Manager daemon, and an activity daemon. An additional daemon monitors systems running the TruCluster Software.
This manual explains the concepts of the Performance Manager software, and describes tasks such as monitoring, thresholding, archiving, and distributed command execution.
This manual describes how to use the License Management Facility (LMF) to manage software licenses from Digital Equipment Corporation.
Although intended primarily for system administrators responsible for managing software licenses on DIGITAL UNIX systems, this manual also provides information for anyone who uses licensed software on DIGITAL UNIX systems.
This manual describes how to configure, use, and maintain the DIGITAL UNIX operating system. It includes information on general day-to-day activities and tasks, changing system configurations, and locating and eliminating sources of trouble.
This manual is for system administrators responsible for managing the operating system. It assumes a knowledge of operating system concepts, commands, and configurations.
This manual describes Remote Installation Services (RIS) and Dataless
Management Services (DMS).
The RIS utility is used for installing software
across a network, instead of using locally mounted media.
DMS allows a server
system to maintain the root,
/usr, and
/var
file systems for client systems.
Each client system has its own
root file system on the server, but clients share the
/usr
and
/var
file systems.
This manual describes how to set up and tune high-performance and high-availability systems running the DIGITAL UNIX operating system. It can help system administrators to accomplish many system tasks, including the following:
Determine the needs of the environment
Configure and tune a system that will meet current and future needs
Understand how hardware, operating system subsystems, and layered applications interact to affect system performance
Learn recommended ways to improve performance
This manual replaces the System Tuning and Performace Management manual.
This manual describes how to upgrade a system from an ULTRIX and ULTRIX Worksystem Software system to DIGITAL UNIX, focusing on the following migration paths:
From ULTRIX Versions 4.2 through 4.4 to DIGITAL UNIX Versions 3.0 through 3.2
From ULTRIX Version 4.5 to DIGITAL UNIX Version 4.0B.
This manual provides answers to migration issues for ULTRIX users, system and network administrators, and programmers.
This manual, published by O'Reilly & Associates, describes how to
customize a wide range of X Window System environments, from an individual
workstation to groups of workstations and X terminals connected on a network.
Major topics include security, the X display manager (xdm),
fonts, color, X terminals, and X client applications.
This manual describes various aspects of the X Window System environment as it is implemented on DIGITAL UNIX. It provides information on how to perform system administration tasks for the DIGITAL UNIX X Window System environment, and describes how to customize X Window System resources and key mappings. It also provides information about programming within the DIGITAL UNIX X Window System environment.
The programming documentation consists of manuals designed for software developers who write software applications on or for the DIGITAL UNIX operating system. The documentation in this category is grouped in two primary areas: general programming and windows programming.
The manuals in the general programming category describe the DIGITAL UNIX programming environment.
This manual describes the DIGITAL UNIX Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) subsystem, how to configure the subsystem, and how to use the ATM kernel interfaces.
This manual is for experienced UNIX kernel programmers responsible for writing ATM device drivers and kernel modules.
This manual describes the Alpha hardware architecture's assembly language, which is supported by the DIGITAL UNIX compiler system. The manual describes the assembly language syntax rules, and how to write assembly language programs.
This manual is for system software developers who are writing assembly language programs on or for DIGITAL UNIX.
This manual defines the requirements, mechanisms, and conventions used in the interface that supports procedure calls on DIGITAL UNIX for Alpha systems. The standard defines data structures, constants, algorithms, conventions, methods, and functional interfaces, which enable a native, user-mode procedure to operate correctly in the multilanguage and multithreaded DIGITAL UNIX environment on Alpha hardware.
Although this manual primarily defines requirements for compiler and debugger writers, the information applies to procedure calling for all programmers at all levels of programming.
This manual provides reference information for using the DEC C language on DIGITAL systems. DEC C is an ISO/ANSI-compliant C compiler for DIGITAL UNIX and OpenVMS VAX and Alpha systems.
This manual is based on the ISO C Standard (ISO 9899:1990[1992]), formerly the ANSI X3J11 committee's standard for the C programming language (commonly called ANSI C). All library functions and language extensions to the ANSI C standard are also described.
This manual is intended for programmers who need reference information
on the DEC C language.
For task-oriented information or platform-specific
information see the
cc(1)
reference page and the
Programmer's
Guide.
This manual provides reference and exception information for DPML, DIGITAL's Portable Mathematics Library software. This manual documents the DPML routines and, in particular, how they behave when given an exception input argument. It also documents operating system entry points and supported floating-point data types.
This manual is for compiler writers and system and application programmers who do not have high-level language support of DPML routines in their language of choice, but instead need to access DPML routines directly from application programs.
The DIGITAL Ladebug Debugger is a tool for debugging executable programs at the source-code and machine-code levels. It can debug programs written in C and C++, Ada, COBOL, and Fortran.
This manual is for developers who need to debug multiprocess and multithreaded applications, perform kernel debugging, and perform remote client/server debugging. It is organized in two parts:
Part 1 describes the Ladebug graphical (window-based) user interface (GUI), which provides access to all of the major Ladebug features.
Part 2 describes the command line interface, which can be used from within the GUI or from the shell-level prompt.
This manual provides usage and reference information on DECthreads routines. It provides information on the three DECthreads interfaces used to perform multithreaded operations: cma, pthread, and pthread exception-returning.
This manual is for programmers writing multithreaded applications. It assumes experience with a high-level programming language (such as C), with UNIX operating systems, and with UNIX software development tools.
This manual describes the procedures for creating, maintaining, and installing the collections of files and directories that make up a layered products kit. A kit is the standard mechanism by which layered product modifications are delivered and maintained on a DIGITAL UNIX system. Kits are distributed on CD-ROM, diskettes, or tape for installation on customer's systems.
This manual is for programmers who are developing realtime applications on DIGITAL UNIX systems. It provides information on writing new realtime applications and porting existing realtime applications from other systems.
This manual does not present function syntax or reference information; the online reference pages provide that information.
This manual is for application programmers or system engineers who are already familiar with the C programming language. It assumes experience with UNIX operating systems and with UNIX software development tools.
This manual describes the DIGITAL UNIX network programming environment. It describes in depth the X/Open Transport Interface (XTI) and the sockets and STREAMS programming frameworks, including information about system calls, header files, and libraries. Additionally, it provides information about porting sockets-based applications to XTI.
This manual also describes the software bridge
ifnet
(STREAMS module and DLPI STREAMS pseudodevice driver) that the DIGITAL UNIX
operating system supports.
This bridge allows programs that use sockets-based
protocol stacks to access STREAMS drivers, and programs that use STREAMS-based
protocol stacks to access BSD-based drivers.
This manual is for experienced UNIX programmers.
This manual describes the programming environment of the DIGITAL UNIX operating system, with an emphasis on the C programming language.
This manual is for all programmers who use the DIGITAL UNIX operating system to create or maintain programs in any supported language.
This manual (developed by AT&T and published by Prentice-Hall) provides information on the use of the STREAMS mechanism at the user and kernel levels. It contains introductory information for those who are unfamiliar with the STREAMS mechanism.
This manual addresses topics such as using STREAMS to monitor, control, and poll Streams; designing and implementing STREAMS modules and drivers; and using STREAMS-based pipes and FIFOs. It also describes the STREAMS multiplexing facility and the STREAMS-based terminal and pseudo-terminal subsystems.
This manual describes commands and utilities for text manipulation, macro and program generation, and source file management on DIGITAL UNIX.
Although the commands and utilities described in this manual are primarily
for programmers, some of them (such as
grep,
awk,
sed,
and the Source Code Control System
(SCCS)) are useful for general users.
This manual assumes that the reader is a moderately experienced user of UNIX systems.
This manual provides an overview of high-level programming with remote
procedure calls in the Open-Network Computing Environment (ONC RPC).
It describes
how to use the
rpcgen
protocol compiler to create RPC applications
and describes the RPC programming interface.
This manual is for programmers who want to write network applications without knowledge of the underlying network.
This manual provides an overview of writing international programs and provides details about using the tools included on the DIGITAL UNIX operating system.
An international program interacts with users in their own language and reflects the culture of the users' region. Internationalization is the process of designing or adapting programs to meet international requirements, such as those of multiple local languages and the specific character sets associated with them.
This manual is for programmers developing international applications for DIGITAL UNIX.
Windows programming documentation contains information specifically for programmers developing Common Desktop Environment (CDE) applications or X window applications on or for DIGITAL UNIX. This kit contains the following manuals:
This manual introduces the Application Builder and explains how to use it to build CDE applications. Because the Application Builder helps to easily create and modify user interfaces, it is a powerful tool for programmers, user interface designers, and project managers.
This manual provides the information needed to create Motif applications
with Korn Shell (ksh) scripts.
It also provides several
example scripts of increasing complexity.
This manual is for programmers who want to develop Motif applications
using Korn Shell scripts rather than the C programming language.
This manual
assumes knowledge of Korn Shell programming, Motif, and the Xt Intrinsics.
Familiarity with the X programming library (Xlib) is also
assumed.
This manual describes how to develop online help for CDE applications. It describes how to create help topics and how to integrate online help into a CDE application.
This manual is for application programmers who want to do the following:
Design, create, and view online help information
Create software applications that provide a fully integrated help facility
This manual provides information for internationalizing the desktop and enabling applications to support various languages and cultural conventions in a consistent user interface.
This manual is for CDE application programmers whose products are available worldwide.
This manual contains the information needed to integrate an existing application into the CDE desktop. It also describes how to write new CDE applications.
This manual assumes a familiarity with Motif, X, UNIX, and C programming.
This manual provides a high-level view of the development environment and the developer documentation set for CDE. It is for the following audiences:
Application developers who develop new CDE applications, or integrate existing OSF/Motif applications into CDE
Managers or project leaders interested in designing a project involving applications that will run on CDE
This manual provides style guidelines for CDE application design and lists the requirements for CDE application-level certification. CDE requirements consist of the OSF/Motif Version 1.2 requirements with CDE-specific additions.
This manual describes how the ToolTalk service works and how it uses information that applications supply to deliver messages. It also describes how applications use the ToolTalk service and ToolTalk components.
This manual assumes familiarity with the ToolTalk service, UNIX operating system commands, system administrator commands, and system terminology.
This glossary provides a comprehensive list of terms used in the Common Desktop Environment.
This manual is for all CDE users.
This manual introduces the Display PostScript system extensions of DIGITAL's windowing software. The manual describes specific concepts, tasks, and facts that programmers must know to write Display PostScript applications for windowing software.
This manual is for experienced UNIX programmers. It assumes a familiarity with the C programming language and the PostScript programming language. This manual is meant to be used in conjunction with the PostScript Language Reference Manual.
This manual (developed by the OSF and published by Prentice Hall) provides programming information on how to use the various components of the OSF/Motif environment: the Toolkit, window manager, and user interface language.
This manual is for programmers who want to create applications in the OSF/Motif environment.
This manual (developed by the OSF and published by Prentice Hall) provides a framework of behavior specifications to guide application developers, widget developers, and window manager developers in the design and implementation of products consistent with the Presentation Manager and the OSF/Motif user interface.
This manual establishes consistent behavior among new products by drawing out common elements from a variety of current behavioral models. It anticipates the evolution of graphical user interfaces as new technology becomes available and as the use of the OSF/Motif user interface spreads.
This manual is for programmers and interface designers developing OSF/Motif applications who want to present a uniform and usable software interface consistent with other OSF/Motif applications.
This manual (published by Addison-Wesley) provides the reference for the syntax and semantics of standard PostScript language, the associated imaging model, and the effects of the graphical operators.
This manual is for programmers writing applications that generate PostScript page descriptions.
From time to time, Adobe System, Inc., publishes supplements to its documentation. The latest set of supplements is included on the DIGITAL UNIX distribution kit. See Chapter 3 for information about printing copies of the supplements.