| Title and Copyright Information |
| About This Manual |
| Audience |
| Organization |
| 1 | New and Changed Features in Version 5.1 |
| 1.1 | Support for the AlphaServer GS Series |
| 1.2 | Memory Troller |
| 1.3 | Compaq Capacity on Demand |
| 1.4 | Support for TruCluster Server |
| 1.5 | Tcl/Tk Version 8.2 |
| 1.6 | Internet Protocol Version 6 Support |
| 1.7 | Extended System V Functionality |
| 1.8 | Device Drivers Must Be Recompiled |
| 1.9 | Additional Changes |
| 1.9.1 | Change to pax, tar, and cpio for Standards Compliance |
| 1.9.2 | Large Shared Memory Segments Support |
| 1.9.3 | Event Management |
| 1.9.4 | New Division of Privileges Capabilities |
| 1.9.5 | Bootable Tape Supports LSM |
| 1.9.6 | FDDI Device Driver |
| 1.9.7 | DNS/BIND Enhancements |
| 1.9.8 | NTP Enhancements |
| 1.9.9 | IMAP Server Enhancements |
| 1.9.10 | Account Management Enhancements |
| 1.9.10.1 | Filtering Added to the SysMan Account Management Task |
| 1.9.10.2 | Enhanced Security Features |
| 1.9.11 | File System Enhancements |
| 1.9.11.1 | AutoFS |
| 1.9.11.2 | Digital Versatile Disk File System |
| 1.9.11.3 | Changes to the mount and statfs System Calls |
| 1.9.11.4 | UFS File System Extension |
| 1.9.12 | Development Environment Enhancments |
| 1.9.12.1 | Enhancements to the acreate Function |
| 1.9.12.2 | Spike Post-Link Optimizer |
| 1.9.12.3 | Changes in the Assembly Process of the as and cc Commands |
| 1.9.13 | Advanced Printing Software Version 1.1 |
| 1.9.14 | Performance Manager |
| 1.9.15 | New Options for Collect |
| 1.9.16 | Perl Upgraded to Version 5.00503 |
| 1.9.17 | Windows System Software Enhancements |
| 1.9.17.1 | Change to X Server Behavior for Graphic Drivers |
| 1.9.17.2 | CDE and Motif Applications Can Run in UTF-8 Locales |
| 1.9.17.3 | Improved Size 2 Terminal Font |
| 1.9.17.4 | Motif Version 2.1 |
| 1.9.18 | GNU M4 Version 1.4 |
| 1.9.19 | Netscape Communicator |
| 2 | New and Changed Features in Version 5.0A |
| 2.1 | Support for TruCluster Server |
| 2.2 | CAM Layered Components Integrated into the Base Operating System |
| 2.3 | Collect Data Collection Tool |
| 2.4 | Event Manager |
| 2.5 | Support for DE602-FA |
| 2.6 | Additional Changes |
| 2.6.1 | AlphaServer DS20E |
| 2.6.2 | Mail Servers Enhancements |
| 2.6.3 | Turning Off Security Checks for Sendmail Support Files |
| 2.6.4 | Direct I/O Performance Improvements |
| 2.6.5 | UFS Delayed Metadata Mount Option |
| 2.6.6 | New Mount Options |
| 2.6.7 | New vfs Subsystem Attributes |
| 2.6.8 | New Options in SysMan Menu for NTP |
| 2.6.9 | ToolTalk Security Enhancement |
| 2.6.10 | XEmacs |
| 2.6.11 | Netscape Communicator Version 4.7 |
| 2.6.12 | Ladebug |
| 2.6.13 | TruType Rasterizer Support |
| 2.6.14 | Intelligent ABC Input Method for Simplified Chinese |
| 2.6.15 | AlphaServer 8400/GS140 Power Supply Monitoring |
| 2.6.16 | MAXCLIENTS Attribute |
| 2.6.17 | New Base Operating System CD-ROM Format |
| 2.6.18 | Enhancements to the Documentation CD-ROM |
| 3 | New and Changed Features in Version 5.0 |
| 3.1 | Scalability Enhancements |
| 3.2 | Installation Improvements |
| 3.3 | System Management |
| 3.3.1 | Event Manager |
| 3.3.2 | Exporting Tru64 UNIX System Management Data Using SNMP |
| 3.3.3 | SysMan Integration and Application Access |
| 3.3.4 | New and Changed SysMan Configuration Applications |
| 3.4 | File Systems and Storage |
| 3.4.1 | File Systems Support for Increased Subdirectories and Links |
| 3.5 | New Networking Features |
| 3.6 | DAPBA and DAPCA ATM Adapter Support |
| 3.7 | Advanced Server for UNIX |
| 3.8 | Enhanced TruCluster Support |
| 3.9 | Documentation |
| 3.10 | Additional Changes |
| 3.10.1 | Changes to Device Naming |
| 3.10.2 | Changes to Data Structures to Support Larger File Systems and Storage |
| 3.10.3 | Swap Device List and /sbin/swapdefault Moved to /etc/sysconfigtab |
| 3.10.4 | Hot Swap Support |
| 3.10.5 | Kernel Attribute Changes |
| 3.10.6 | Kernel Tuning Attribute Changes |
| 3.10.7 | System Management |
| 3.10.7.1 | Enhanced Hardware Management |
| 3.10.7.2 | Insight Manager Integrated with sys_check |
| 3.10.7.3 | New /etc/rc.config.common File |
| 3.10.7.4 | Mail Enhancements |
| 3.10.7.5 | Enhancement to the shutdown Command |
| 3.10.7.6 | Change in root crontab Behavior |
| 3.10.7.7 | NetRAIN Interface Configuration |
| 3.10.8 | AdvFS File System |
| 3.10.8.1 | Fileset Creation with var Area in /usr |
| 3.10.8.2 | New On-Disk Format for AdvFS Domains |
| 3.10.8.3 | New AdvFS System Attributes |
| 3.10.8.4 | Ehancement to the quotacheck Command |
| 3.10.8.5 | QUOTACHECK_CONFIG Environment Variable |
| 3.10.9 | Logical Storage Manager Meta-Data Changes |
| 3.10.10 | Development Environment |
| 3.10.10.1 | New Features in Object-File and Symbol-Table Formats |
| 3.10.10.2 | Time Zone Enhancements |
| 3.10.10.3 | New Graphical Program Analysis Tools (GPA) |
| 3.10.10.4 | Visual Threads Tool for Threads Debugging |
| 3.10.10.5 | OpenMP API |
| 3.10.10.6 | Profile-Based Optimization Support |
| 3.10.10.7 | Integrated Profiling Commands |
| 3.10.10.8 | Extensions to atom Command's Programmable Interfaces |
| 3.10.10.9 | Change to Profiling of Threaded Programs with hiprof |
| 3.10.10.10 | SIGFPE Signal Code Usage Changes |
| 3.10.10.11 | Double Long Type is Now 128 Bits |
| 3.10.10.12 | 64-Bit Time-Handling Interfaces |
| 3.10.10.13 | DECthreads Process-Shared Synchronization Objects |
| 3.10.10.14 | DECthreads Debug Assistant Library |
| 3.10.10.15 | DECthreads Read-Write Locks |
| 3.10.10.16 | DECthreads Thread Stack and Backing Store Allocation |
| 3.10.10.17 | DECthreads Thread Stack Overflow Warning Area |
| 3.10.10.18 | The malloc Function Is Now Tunable |
| 3.10.11 | Commands and Utilities |
| 3.10.11.1 | DXMtools |
| 3.10.11.2 | Improvements to the Program Stack |
| 3.10.11.3 | Changes to the iostat Disk Statistics Fields |
| 3.10.11.4 | Changes to ACL-Related Features |
| 3.10.12 | Security |
| 3.10.12.1 | Login Success and Failure Logging is Optional |
| 3.10.12.2 | Enabling and Disabling ACLs |
| 3.10.12.3 | ACL Management Utility |
| 3.10.12.4 | Shadow Password Support |
| 3.10.12.5 | Netscape Communicator |
| 3.10.13 | Window Systems Software |
| 3.10.13.1 | X Environment |
| 3.10.13.2 | Enabling Microsoft Windows Keys |
| 3.10.13.3 | CDE Setup |
| 3.10.13.4 | CDE Window List |
| 3.10.13.5 | X Server Command Line Option to Get Old Vendor String |
| 4 | New and Changed Features in Version 4.0G |
| 4.1 | Support for New Hardware |
| 4.2 | Netscape Communicator Version 4.7 |
| 4.3 | Collect Data Collection Tool Now Supported |
| 4.4 | Capacity on Demand |
| 4.5 | Fibre Channel Connectivity Management Utility |
| 4.6 | New Networking Features |
| 4.7 | 48-Volt Power Supply Monitoring on 8200, 8400, GS60, and GS140 Systems |
| 4.8 | Maximum Number of X Clients |
| 5 | New and Changed Features in Version 4.0F |
| 5.1 | New Hardware Support |
| 5.2 | Support for Fibre Channel Based Storage |
| 5.3 | Logical Partitions for AlphaServer GS140 System |
| 5.4 | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| 5.5 | ATM PACING VC Bandwidth Accounting Change |
| 5.6 | Extensions to atom's Programmable Interfaces |
| 5.7 | Ability to Examine the Stack of a User Program That Caused a Kernel Crash Dump |
| 5.8 | Compaq Analyze Utility |
| 5.9 | Secure Version of syslog |
| 5.10 | Changes to VFS and AdvFS Tunable Attributes |
| 5.11 | Visual Threads |
| 5.12 | Bootable Tape Enhancements |
| 5.13 | Compaq Advanced Printing Software |
| 5.14 | Netscape Communicator Version 4.5 |
| 5.15 | Compaq Insight Manager |
| 5.16 | Support for Universal Serial Bus Keyboards and Mice |
| 5.17 | AltaVista Search on Documentation CD-ROM |
| 5.18 | Support for Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) |
| 5.19 | Availability of COM for Tru64 UNIX |
| Index |