Installation guide

Because these obsolete components have been retired from the operating
system, they are no longer distributed in new versions, beginning with this
version, and they might not be compatible with a future release. They are not
supported as part of the Tru64 UNIX product beginning with this release.
If you have applications or procedures that depend on the DPS software that
is now obsolete, you might want to keep the obsolete DPS software on your
system, yet remove the other obsolete software at this time.
Before you perform the updadmin procedure, you can edit the file
/var/adm/smlogs/upd_obsolete_files so that the DPS software
components are not listed.
If you remove the DPS components from your system by using the
updadmin utility, you will have the opportunity to archive all of the
obsolete components. If you prepare an archive copy, and later discover a
dependency on the obsolete DPS components, you can restore them to the
system from the archive copy.
If you remove the obsolete DPS components without making an archival
copy, there is no way to restore them from the product distribution media for
the current release.
See Section 4.1.9.6 for information on possible user dependencies on the
showps utility as a PostScript document viewer for the Netscape browser.
The freeware application gv might be a suitable replacement for showps.It
has a different user interface than showps but has no dependency on the
obsolete DPS software libraries.
Some of the freeware applications delivered with Version 4.0D had
dependencies on the DPS client libraries. Those applications have been
rebuilt using the GhostScript libraries available on the freeware distribution
media.
8.3 Nonconforming Curses Library
Version 4.0 of the operating system included a new X/Open compliant
Internationalized Curses library. This library was not binary compatible with
previous versions of the Tru64 UNIX Curses library, so compatible binaries
(named libcurses.a and libcurses.so) were shipped in separate
directories for Version 4.0. In that same release, the intent to put the
compatible binaries into an obsolete subset and subsequently remove them in
future releases was announced.
These compatible binaries were moved into the OSFOBSOLETE subset for
Version 4.0D and will be removed in a future release of Tru64 UNIX.
Features and Interfaces Scheduled for Retirement 8–3