OpenVMS Alpha Galaxy Guide
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  Preface

  This guide describes how customers can take advantage of
  the OpenVMS Galaxy capabilities available in OpenVMS
  Alpha Version 7.2.

  The information in this document applies to OpenVMS Alpha
  systems only; it does not apply to OpenVMS VAX systems.

  Intended Audience

  This guide is intended for system managers, application
  programmers, technical consultants, data center managers,
  and anyone else who wants to learn about the Galaxy

  Software Architecture on OpenVMS.

  Document Structure
  Specific topics include:  basic OpenVMS Galaxy concepts,
  hardware and software requirements, configuration
  alternatives, installing and licensing information, system
  management options, and available application programming
  interfaces (APIs) for developing programs for OpenVMS
  Galaxy systems.

  To be supplied:  Chapter descriptions

  How to Use this Book
  To be supplied:  Add a road map of the book.

  This book introduces OpenVMS Galaxy features and explains
  how to use the OpenVMS Galaxy features available in
  OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.2-EFT3.  It includes step-by-step
  procedures for configuring, managing, and using OpenVMS
  Galaxy technology as well as APIs for developing programs to
  take advantage of the new OpenVMS Galaxy features.

  Related Documents

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  http://www.openvms.digital.com

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  Conventions

  In this manual:

  *   Instance   refers to a copy of the OpenVMS Alpha oper-
      ating system.

  *   OpenVMS Galaxy       and  Galaxy   refer to the Compaq

      Galaxy Software Architecture on OpenVMS.

  *   DECwindows      and  DECwindows Motif       refer to

      DECwindows Motif for OpenVMS software.

  The following conventions are used in this manual:

  Ctrlx                 A sequence such as Ctrlx indicates that you
                        must hold down the key labeled Ctrl while you
                        press another key or a pointing device button.

  PF1 x                 A sequence such as PF1 x indicates that you
                        must first press and release the key labeled
                        PF1 and then press and release another key
                        or a pointing device button.

  Return                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.)

                        In the HTML version of this document, this
                        convention appears as brackets, rather than a
                        box.

   . . .                A horizontal ellipsis in examples indicates
                        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.

  .                     A vertical ellipsis indicates the omission of
  .                     items from a code example or command for-
  .                     mat; the items are omitted because they are
                        not important to the topic being discussed.
  ( )                   In command format descriptions, parentheses
                        indicate that you must enclose the options in
                        parentheses if you choose more than one.
  [ ]                   In command format descriptions, brackets
                        indicate optional elements.  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, vertical
                        bars separating items inside brackets indicate
                        that you choose one, none, or more than one
                        of the options.

  { }                   In command format descriptions, braces in-
                        dicate required elements; you must choose one
                        of the options listed.

  bold text             This text style represents the introduction of
                        a new term or the name of an argument, an
                        attribute, or a reason.

                        In the HTML version of this document, this
                        convention appears asitalic te.t

  italic text           Italic text indicates important information,
                        complete titles of manuals, or variables.
                        Variables include information that varies in
                        system output (Internal erronumber ), in
                        command lines (/PRODUCER=    name ), and
                        in command parameters in text (where dd
                        represents the predefined code for the device
                        type).

  UPPERCASE TEXT     Uppercase text indicates a command, the
                        name of a routine, the name of a file, or the
                        abbreviation for a system privilege.

                        Monospace text indicates code examples and
                        interactive screen displays.
  Monospace  type
                        In the C programming language, monospace
                        type in text identifies the following 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 at the end of a command for-
                        mat description, command line, or code line
                        indicates that the command or statement
                        continues on the following line.

  numbers               All numbers in text are assumed to be dec-
                        imal unless otherwise noted.  Nondecimal
                        radixes-binary, octal, or hexadecimal-are
                        explicitly indicated.
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