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7
OpenVMS Documentation Overview
This chapter outlines the changes to the OpenVMS documentation from the
previous version.
7.1 OpenVMS Documentation Changes
Table 7–1 lists the changes to the OpenVMS documentation for OpenVMS Version
7.3.
Table 7–1 Changes to Documentation for OpenVMS Version 7.3
Area of Change Description
Expanded Online Offerings
Documentation CD-ROM The OpenVMS documentation is now available on a single ISO9660
Level 2 CD-ROM. This CD-ROM can be used on OpenVMS, Windows,
and Macintosh systems.
For more information about the documentation CD-ROM, see
Section 8.2.
Online formats OpenVMS documentation is now available in PDF as well as HTML
formats on the documentation CD-ROM.
Adobe Acrobat Reader The documentation CD-ROM includes two versions of the Adobe
Acrobat Reader. One is an executable file for PCs; one is a ZIP file
that can be installed on OpenVMS Alpha systems running Java Version
1.1.8-5.
Online help Reference information for the following OpenVMS utility routines is
now included in online help under
RTL_Routines :
Access Control List (ACL) Editor (ACLEDIT$)
Backup (BACKUP) (BACKUP$)
Command Language (CLI) (CLI$)
Command File Qualifier (UTIL$)
Convert (CONVERT) (CONV$)
Data Compression/Expansion (DCX) (DCX$)
DEC Text Processing Utility (DECTPU) (TPU$)
EDT (EDT$EDIT; FILEIO; WORKIO; XLATE)
File Definition Language (FDL) (FDL$)
Librarian (LBR) (LBR$)
LOGINOUT (LGI) (LGI$)
Mail Utility (MAIL) (MAIL$)
National Character Set (NCS) (NCS$)
Print Symbiont Modification (PSM) (PSM$; USER-x)
Symbiont/Job Controller Interface (SMB) (SMB$)
Sort/Merge (SOR) (SOR$)
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