Preface
Intended Audience
The intended audience for this manual is OpenVMS system
managers.
Document Structure
The OpenVMS System Manager's Manual consists of the
following chapters:
For more information about the structure of the OpenVMS
System Manager's Manual , see Section 1.1, Using the
OpenVMS System Manager's Manual .
Related Documents
The following books are helpful when you use them in
conjunction with the OpenVMS System Manager's Manual :
- DECnet for OpenVMS Guide to Networking
- DECnet for OpenVMS Networking Manual
- DECnet for OpenVMS Network Management Utilities
Conventions
The name of the OpenVMS AXP operating system has been
changed to OpenVMS Alpha. Any references to OpenVMS
AXP or AXP are synonymous with OpenVMS Alpha or
Alpha.
The following conventions are used to identify information
specific to OpenVMS Alpha or to OpenVMS VAX:
The Alpha icon denotes the beginning of
information specific to OpenVMS Alpha.
The VAX icon denotes the beginning of
information specific to OpenVMS VAX.
The diamond symbol denotes the end of a
section of information specific to OpenVMS
Alpha or to OpenVMS VAX.
In this manual, every use of DECwindows and DECwindows
Motif refers to DECwindows Motif for OpenVMS software.
The following conventions are also used in this manual:
A sequence such as PF1 x or GOLD x indi-
cates that you must first press and release
the key labeled PF1 or GOLD and then press
and release another key or a pointing device
button.
GOLD key sequences can also have a slash
( / ), dash (-), or underscore ( _ ) as a delimiter
in EVE commands.
In examples, a key name enclosed in a box
indicates that you press a key on the keyboard.
(In text, a key name is not enclosed in a box.)
. . . Horizontal ellipsis points in examples indicate
one of the following possibilities:
.
Additional optional arguments in a
statement have been omitted.
.
The preceding item or items can be
repeated one or more times.
.
Additional parameters, values, or other
information can be entered.
.
.
.
Vertical ellipsis points indicate the omission
of items from a code example or command
format; the items are omitted because they are
not important to the topic being discussed.
( ) In command format descriptions, parenthe-
ses indicate that, if you choose more than
one option, you must enclose the choices in
parentheses.
[ ] In command format descriptions, brackets
indicate optional elem You can choose one,
none, or all of the options. (Brackets are not
optional, however, in the syntax of a directory
name in an OpenVMS file specification or in
the syntax of a substring specification in an
assignment statement.)
{ } In command format descriptions, braces in-
dicate a required choice of options; you must
choose one of the options listed.
boldface text Boldface text represents the introduction of a
new term or the name of an argument, an at-
tribute, or a reason (user action that triggers
a callback).
Boldface text is also used to show user input
in Bookreader versions of the manual.
italic text Italic text indicates important information,
complete titles of manuals, or variables.
Variables include information that varies in
system messages (Internal error number ), in
command lines (/PRODUCER= name ), and in
command parameters in text (where device-
name contains up to five alphanumeric
characters).
UPPERCASE TEXT Uppercase text indicates a command, the
name of a routine, the name of a file, or the
abbreviation for a system privilege.
struct Monospace type in text identifies the fol-
lowing C programming language elements:
keywords, the names of independently com-
piled external functions and files, syntax
summaries, and references to variables or
identifiers introduced in an example.
- A hyphen in code examples indicates that ad-
ditional arguments to the request are provided
on the line that follows.
numbers All numbers in text are assumed to be dec-
imal unless otherwise noted. Nondecimal
radixes-binary, octal, or hexadecimal-are
explicitly indicated.