User Guide

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Supported UNIX Operating Systems ACL Application Programmer’s Guide
1.2 Supported UNIX Operating Systems
The ACL software is supported on the following UNIX operating systems:
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Digital Equipment Corporation Digital UNIX (formerly DEC OS/F 1)
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Hewlett Packard HP-UX
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IBM AIX
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Silicon Graphics IRIX
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Sun Microsystems Solaris
Each platform-specific software installation guide referenced in “Related Documents” on
page 1-4 provides a complete list of supported hosts and operating system versions for that
platform. You can also contact Ampex Technical Support for information on supported
systems (see page 1-5).
1.3 Contents
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Section 1, “General Information,” describes notational conventions used in this
document, lists related documents, and provides contact information for Ampex support
services.
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Section 2, “ACL Software Overview,” provides a general overview of the host system
device driver interface, the libacl API functions, and the ACL utilities.
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Section 3, “ACL Operational Characteristics,” describes ACL capabilities and behavior.
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Section 4, “libacl API Functions” contains the libacl API manual pages.
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Section 5, “ACL Utilities“ contains the ACL utilities manual pages.
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Appendix A, “Returned Sense Data,” describes the sense data and condition codes the
ACL uses to report events, conditions, and operational status.
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Appendix B, “Previous ACL Model Name and Address Assignments,” provides data
transfer, storage element names, and address assignments for previous DST 2XX, 4XX,
and 8XX series ACLs.