Technical data

General User Release Notes

4.4 Online Help New and Changed Topics

Some of these utility names begin with strings that match the names of

previously existing Help topics, so the names of the following older Help topics

have been changed to make them unique when you enter a sufﬁcient number of

characters:

Old Topic Name New Topic Name

BACKUP BACKUP_Command

FDL FDL_Files

MAIL MAIL_Command

NCS NCS_Command

A few more changes and additions have been made to Help topics:

• Help for the MIME utility has been added to both Alpha and VAX systems.

• DECthreads Help has been replaced with the POSIX_Threads Help topic.

This change reﬂects a product name change.

• Help formerly located under DPML on Alpha systems is now found under

CPML to reﬂect the product name change to Compaq Portable Mathematics

Library routines.

• On Alpha systems, Help has been added for WWPPS (World-Wide PostScript

Printing Subsystem).

• The CDA messages that used to be included under the CONVERT Help topic

can now be accessed using the Help Message facility.

• The DVR$ messages that used to be included under the VIEW Help topic can

now be accessed using the Help Message facility.

4.5 OpenVMS Alpha Firmware for OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3

V7.3

The OpenVMS Version 7.3 CD–ROM package includes the Alpha Systems

Firmware Update Version 5.9 CD–ROM and Release Notes. Read the Release

Notes before installing the ﬁrmware.

Note:

• If you are running OpenVMS Version 7.3 on AlphaServer GS80/160/320

systems, you need console ﬁrmware V5.9B, which you can download from the

following location:

http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/

• If you are running OpenVMS Version 7.3 on AlphaServer GS80/160/320

systems, you need the V5.9B console ﬁrmware to use the new CPU online

replace feature.

• If you are running OpenVMS Version 7.3 on AlphaServer GS60E/140 systems,

do not use Version 5.9-2 ﬁrmware. Access the following web site for ﬁrmware

V5.9B and the most current information on ﬁrmware:

http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/

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