Getting Started with OpenVMS: A Guide for New Users (HP Technologies)
Getting Started with OpenVMS: A Guide for New Users (HP Technologies)
ISBN: 1555582796
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 215
Pages: 215
Authors: Michael D Duffy
- Getting Started with OpenVMS - A Guide for New Users
- Table Of Content
- Back Cover
- Preface
- How to Use This Book
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- History
- The Roles of OpenVMS
- Part I: A Practical Guide
- Chapter 2: Hardware Platforms Supporting OpenVMS
- The Alpha
- The Intel Itanium
- Chapter 3: Multiuser Concepts
- Concurrent Access by Many Users
- Processes, Jobs, and Threads
- Queues: Print, Batch, and Server
- Chapter 4: User Accounts
- Resource Quotas and Limits
- Disk Quotas
- Privileges
- User Identification Codes
- UICs Are Not Necessarily Unique
- Identifiers
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Logging in and Out of the System
- Obtaining a User Account
- Connecting and Initiating a Login
- The Login Sequence
- The CLI
- Logging out
- Chapter 6: The Digital Command Language
- Format of DCL Commands
- Parts of a DCL Command
- Entering Commands
- DCL Symbols
- WRITE and WRITE SYS
- Comparisons: The IF Command
- Chapter 7: The User Environment
- Running a Program
- Working with Queues
- Using Directories
- File Protection
- OpenVMS Device Names
- Specifying Dates and Times
- Logical Names
- Your LOGIN.COM File
- Broadcast Messages
- Using Subprocesses: The SPAWN Command
- The PIPE Command
- A Word About TCPIP
- A Word About PERL
- Adjusting Your Process Priority
- Adjusting Your Process Privileges
- The OpenVMS PHONE Facility
- Chapter 8: The OpenVMS HELP Facility
- Obtaining a List of Available Help Topics
- Obtaining HELP About a Particular Command
- Returning from Subtopics
- Chapter 9: Command Procedures
- Creating a Command Procedure
- Naming Your Procedures
- Entering Commands
- Making Your Command Procedure Self-Documenting
- Executing a Command Procedure Interactively
- Command Levels
- Executing a Command Procedure As a Batch Job
- Reading and Writing Files From a Procedure
- Getting Input Data into Command Procedures
- Labels
- Branching
- Handling Errors
- Chapter 10: System Security
- Logging out of the System
- Passwords
- How OpenVMS Protects Passwords
- Changing Your Password
- Access Restrictions
- Protecting Your Files from Unauthorized Access
- Captive Accounts
- The Audit Trail
- Security Alarms
- File Highwater Marking
- DELETEERASE and PURGEERASE
- Chapter 11: Using Your Terminal
- Communications Speeds for Physical Terminals
- Other Terminal Settings
- Using SET TERMINAL
- The Recall Buffer
- Freezing the Display
- Control Characters
- Chapter 12: E-mail
- Two Separate Strategies
- Your OpenVMS E-mail Address
- SMTP, POP3, and IMAP
- Using the Terminal Interface
- The MIME Utility
- Chapter 13: Text Editors
- A Crash Course in EDT
- EDT Caveats
- Starting EDT
- The EDT Journal File
- Working with Your Text
- Why You Should Not Trust Your Keyboard
- Using Line-Mode Commands
- Moving Around Your File
- Adding Text
- Removing Text
- Moving or Copying Text
- Setting Autowrap
- Formatting Text
- Saving Your File
- Exiting EDT
- Starting EDT in Full-Screen Mode Automatically
- EDT Summary
- Chapter 14: Using DECnet
- DECnet Phase IV Node Names and Addresses
- DECnet-Plus Node Names
- Using DECnet To Access Remote Files
- DECnet Proxies
- Foreign File Specifications
- DECnet Tasks
- Logging into Another Node
- Aborting a DECnet Session
- Summary
- Chapter 15: The OpenVMS GUI
- Systems That Can Support the GUI
- GUI Basics
- Logging into the GUI
- Login Screen Options
- The New Desktop
- Chapter 16: Your Personal OpenVMS System
- System Startup and Shutdown
- The Console Subsystem
- Software Licenses
- Installing Software
- If Your System Will Be Connected to the Internet
- Part II: A Technical Introduction
- Chapter 17: The Process
- Memory Layout of a Process
- Moving OpenVMS from 32 to 64 Bits
- Process Scheduling
- Process States
- Scheduling in Action
- Process Priorities
- Scheduling on Multiple CPUs
- Chapter 18: Virtual Memory Management
- A Paging Example
- Paging Details
- Virtual-Memory Terminology
- Paging Within a Process
- Paging on the Entire System
- Secondary Page Caches
- Modified Page Writing
- Dynamic Storage Pools
- Chapter 19: Images
- Sharable Images
- Installed Images
- Chapter 20: The Files-11 File System
- Multivolume Sets
- File System Terminology
- Common File Operations
- File Layout on Disk
- File System Operation
- File Fragmentation
- Reserved Files
- INDEXF.SYS Contents
- OpenVMS Record Management Services
- Chapter 21: Clustering and Galaxy Systems
- Clusters and Storage Controllers
- Galaxy Systems
- Chapter 22: DECnet Details
- DECnet Versions
- DECnet Phase IV
- DECnet Phase V (DECnet OSI)
- DECnet Protocols
- Appendix A: Decimal, Octal, and Hexadecimal Notations
- Appendix B: Additional Resources
- The OpenVMS FAQ online
- Encompass
- The OpenVMS Hobbyist Program
- Digital Press
- Newsgroups
- Appendix C: Default File Types
- Glossary A - O
- Glossary P - X
- Index Symbols Numbers
- Index A
- Index B
- Index C
- Index D
- Index E
- Index F
- Index G
- Index H
- Index I
- Index J
- Index K
- Index L
- Index M
- Index N
- Index O
- Index P
- Index Q
- Index R
- Index S
- Index T
- Index U
- Index V
- Index W
- Index X
- List of Figures
- List of Sidebars
Getting Started with OpenVMS: A Guide for New Users (HP Technologies)
ISBN: 1555582796
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 215
Pages: 215
Authors: Michael D Duffy
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