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Introducing Compaq TCP/IP Services for
OpenVMS
The Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS product is the OpenVMS
implementation of the industry-standard TCP/IP suite of communications
protocols. With TCP/IP Services, users, administrators, and programmers can
perform tasks from anywhere in the network, such as:
• Network file access: accessing files on remote hosts
• Sending e-mail: exchanging messages between hosts
• Application development: developing TCP/IP applications for communication
between local and remote hosts
• File transfer: exchanging files between hosts
• Accessing user information: accessing information about other users logged
onto local or remote hosts
• Remote management: managing and monitoring the network and applications
from remote hosts
•TELNET:loggingontoaremotehost
• Remote command execution: issuing commands to remote hosts
• Remote printing: sending print jobs to a remote printer, and receiving print
jobs from a remote host
• Networking booting: providing boot service for a remote host
Users can perform internetworking tasks seamlessly without worrying about
the hardware details of each individual network. The TCP/IP Services provides
interoperability and resource sharing between OpenVMS systems, UNIX systems,
and other systems that support the TCP/IP protocol suite and Sun Microsystems
Network File System (NFS). Internet hosts share data and resources by using
standard TCP/IP protocols over a number of network hardware configurations
including Ethernet, Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), Token Ring, and
asynchronous transfer mode (ATM).
This chapter discusses the following topics. More details about these topics are
provided elsewhere in this manual and in other Compaq TCP/IP Services for
OpenVMS and OpenVMS documentation set manuals.
• Overview of TCP/IP Services
• Other Compaq OpenVMS products that require TCP/IP
• Application programming interfaces (APIs)
• Requests for Comments (RFCs)
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