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Overview

The OSF DCE Application Development Reference provides complete and detailed reference information to help application programmers use the correct syntax for Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) calls when writing UNIX applications for a distributed computing environment.

Audience
This document is written for application programmers who want to write Distributed Computing Environment applications for a UNIX environment.

Applicability
This revision applies to the OSF® DCE Release 1.2.2 offering and related updates. See your software license for details.

Purpose
The purpose of this document is to assist application programmers when writing UNIX applications for a distributed computing environment. After reading this manual, application programmers should be able to use the correct syntax for DCE calls.

Document Usage
This document is organized into five main topics.

· DCE Routines

· DCE Threads

· DCE Remote Procedure Call

· DCE Distributed Time Service

· DCE Security Service