| Title and Copyright Information |
| About This Manual |
| Audience |
| Organization |
| Related Documents |
| 1 | New and Changed Features in Version 4.0 |
| 1.1 | Common Desktop Environment |
| 1.1.1 | CDE Video Tour |
| 1.1.2 | CDE Screen Savers |
| 1.2 | X/Open-Compliant Curses |
| 1.3 | X11R6 |
| 1.3.1 | X Keyboard Extension for X11R6 (XKB) |
| 1.4 | DXImageview |
| 1.5 | Commands and Utilities |
| 1.5.1 | Changes to Mtools |
| 1.5.2 | sendmail Utility Supports Configurable GECOS Fuzzy Matching |
| 1.5.3 | df Supports Large File Systems |
| 1.5.4 | Compressed Reference Pages |
| 1.5.5 | Enhancements to terminfo |
| 1.5.6 | GNU Emacs Version 19.28 |
| 1.5.7 | Netscape Navigator |
| 1.5.8 | dxterm |
| 1.5.9 | Performance Manager |
| 1.5.10 | utilupdate |
| 1.5.11 | Bootable Tape |
| 1.5.12 | Partition Overlap Checks Added to Disk Utilities |
| 1.5.13 | scsimgr Utility for Creating Device Special Files |
| 1.6 | SysMan System Management Applications |
| 1.6.1 | Installation |
| 1.6.1.1 | New Installation User Interfaces |
| 1.6.1.2 | New Format of Distribution Media |
| 1.6.1.3 | Installation Name Changes |
| 1.6.1.4 | Enhancements to the Installation Procedure |
| 1.6.1.5 | Cloned Installations |
| 1.6.2 | Configuration Applications |
| 1.6.2.1 | Bind Configuration |
| 1.6.2.2 | Disk Configuration |
| 1.6.2.3 | Mail Configuration |
| 1.6.2.4 | Network Configuration |
| 1.6.2.5 | NFS Configuration |
| 1.6.2.6 | Print Configuration |
| 1.6.2.7 | Internationalization Configuration |
| 1.6.3 | Daily Administration Applications |
| 1.6.3.1 | Account Manager |
| 1.6.3.2 | Archiver |
| 1.6.3.3 | File Sharing |
| 1.6.3.4 | Host Manager |
| 1.6.3.5 | License Manager |
| 1.6.3.6 | Shutdown Manager |
| 1.6.3.7 | System Information |
| 1.6.3.8 | Audit Manager |
| 1.6.4 | Monitoring and Tuning Applications |
| 1.6.4.1 | Kernel Tuner |
| 1.6.5 | Storage Management |
| 1.6.6 | Tools |
| 1.7 | Standards |
| 1.7.1 | Realtime Is Compliant with Final POSIX 1003.1b Standard Interfaces |
| 1.7.2 | DECthreads Is Compliant with Final POSIX 1003.1c Standard Interfaces |
| 1.7.3 | DEC C Compiler Complies with ISO C 94 |
| 1.8 | Development Environment |
| 1.8.1 | Tcl/Tk Availability |
| 1.8.2 | DEC C++ |
| 1.8.3 | Replacement of the pixie Utility |
| 1.8.4 | Software Development Environment Repackaging |
| 1.8.5 | DEC C Compiler |
| 1.8.6 | Init Execution Order Modified for Static Executable Files |
| 1.8.7 | PC-Sample Mode of prof Command |
| 1.8.8 | atom and prof Commands and Threads |
| 1.8.9 | Thread Independent Services (TIS) Interface |
| 1.8.10 | High-Resolution Clock |
| 1.8.11 | POSIX 1003.1b Realtime Signals |
| 1.8.12 | POSIX 1003.1b Synchronized I/O |
| 1.8.13 | POSIX 1003.1b _POSIX_C_SOURCE Symbol |
| 1.8.14 | Digital Porting Assistant |
| 1.9 | Networking |
| 1.9.1 | New Version of the gated Daemon |
| 1.9.2 | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) |
| 1.9.3 | Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) |
| 1.9.4 | NFS over TCP |
| 1.9.5 | Extensible SNMP |
| 1.9.6 | SNMP MIB support |
| 1.9.7 | telnet and mrouted |
| 1.9.8 | Network Time Protocol (NTP) |
| 1.10 | Enhanced Security |
| 1.11 | File Systems |
| 1.11.1 | AdvFS |
| 1.11.1.1 | New Tuning Parameters for AdvFS |
| 1.11.1.2 | AdvFS Now Supports Directory Truncation |
| 1.11.2 | File System Access Control Lists (ACLs) |
| 1.11.3 | Logical Storage Manager |
| 1.11.4 | Overlap Partition Checking |
| 1.12 | Bootstrap Linking and Kernel Modules |
| 1.12.1 | Defining Modules |
| 1.12.2 | Bootstrap Linking |
| 1.12.3 | Related Changes |
| 1.13 | Internationalization and Language Support |
| 1.13.1 | Internationalization (I18N) Configuration Utility for CDE |
| 1.13.2 | Unicode Support |
| 1.13.3 | The Worldwide Mail Handler No Longer Exists |
| 1.13.4 | Multilingual Emacs (mule) |
| 1.13.5 | Support for Catalan, Lithuanian, and Slovene |
| 1.13.6 | man Command Supports Codeset Conversion |
| 1.14 | PCMCIA (PC Card) Support |
| 1.14.1 | Restrictions |
| 1.14.2 | Configuring the PCMCIA Adapter Board from the Console |
| 1.14.3 | Configuring and Using a PCMCIA Modem PC Card |
| 1.14.4 | Creating a Device Special File for the Modem Card |
| 1.14.5 | /etc/remote File |
| 1.14.6 | Inserting a PCMCIA Modem Card |
| 1.14.6.1 | Possible Error Message |
| 1.14.7 | Removing a PCMCIA Modem Card |
| 1.15 | Dynamic Device Recognition for SCSI Devices |
| 2 | New and Changed Features in Version 4.0A |
| 3 | New and Changed Features in Version 4.0B |
| 3.1 | Environmental Monitoring |
| 3.2 | Bootable Tape |
| 3.3 | Console |
| 3.4 | VMEbus Example Device Driver Upgraded |
| 3.5 | Maintenance |
| 3.6 | Date Command Enhanced for Year 2000 Support |
| 3.7 | Installation Process Enhanced |
| 3.8 | Ladebug Debugger Updated |
| 3.9 | Netscape FastTrack Server Version 2.0 |
| 3.10 | Netscape Navigator Gold Version 3.0 |
| 3.11 | Performance Manager Updated to Version 2.1A |
| 3.12 | Worldwide Language Support Enhanced |
| 3.13 | New Processor Support |
| 4 | New and Changed Features in Version 4.0C |
| 5 | New and Changed Features in Version 4.0D |
| 5.1 | Year 2000 Readiness |
| 5.2 | Maximum Number of UIDs and GIDs |
| 5.3 | Class Scheduler |
| 5.4 | Enhanced Core File Naming |
| 5.5 | Compressed Crash Dumps |
| 5.6 | Binary Error Log Buffer Tuning |
| 5.7 | Early Child Exit Notification |
| 5.8 | ATM IP Switching, LAN Emulation, and Boot-Time Initialization |
| 5.9 | Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) |
| 5.10 | Maximum Number of Open Files per Process |
| 5.11 | Multiple Session CD-ROMs |
| 5.12 | Dynamic Support for CDFS and ISO 9660 CD-ROMs |
| 5.13 | AdvFS Split Mirror Mount |
| 5.14 | AdvFS defragment Utility Added to Base System |
| 5.15 | Field Test Version of AdvFS Salvage Utility |
| 5.16 | AdvFS PrestoServe Performance |
| 5.17 | AdvFS Domain Panics in Binary Error Log |
| 5.18 | mmap Performance Improvement |
| 5.19 | PCI Driver Debugging |
| 5.20 | Pixstats Implemented as prof Command Option |
| 5.21 | Debugging and Analyzing DECthreads Programs |
| 5.22 | Multilingual Support in CDE Desktop |
| 5.23 | Documentation CD-ROM in ISO 9660 Format |
| 5.24 | DIGITAL UNIX Device Driver Kit |
| 5.25 | DE500-BA and DE500-FA Support |
| 5.26 | Server System MIB and Server Management MIB Subagent |
| 5.27 | VMEbus Backplane Driver Enhancements |
| 5.28 | New Printer Support |
| 5.29 | New Tape Drive Support |
| 5.30 | DEC C Compiler Version 5.6 |
| 5.31 | cc.alt Compiler Updated |
| 5.32 | DEC C++ Runtime Library Updated |
| 5.33 | Ladebug Debugger Updated |
| 5.34 | Profiling and Memory Analysis Added to Developers' Toolkit |
| 5.35 | Netscape Navigator Gold Version 3.04 |
| 5.36 | Netscape FastTrack Server Version 2.01 |
| 5.37 | Java Development Kit Version 1.1.4 |
| 5.38 | Performance Manager Version 4.0D |
| 5.39 | NetWorker Save and Restore Version 4.4 |
| 5.40 | SCSI CAM Layered Components |
| 5.41 | Open3D for DIGITAL UNIX |
| 5.42 | Advanced Server Version 4.0 for DIGITAL UNIX |
| 6 | New and Changed Features in Version 4.0E |
| 6.1 | New Processor Support |
| 6.2 | USB Driver Support |
| 6.3 | AdvFS Now Supports Atomic Write Data Logging |
| 6.4 | Preventing Partial AdvFS Data Writes |
| 6.5 | Euro-character Support |
| 6.6 | Arena Malloc |
| 6.7 | NetRAIN |
| 6.8 | Asynchronous Processing Support in the Extensible SNMP Agent API |
| 6.9 | NFS Over TCP |
| 6.10 | Intraserver ITPS Device Driver |
| 6.11 | Gigabit Ethernet |
| 6.12 | sys_check Tool |
| 6.13 | Sendmail Enhancement |
| 6.14 | New Prestoserve Subsystem Attribute |
| 6.15 | Enhanced Security for TruCluster Version 1.5 |
| 6.16 | Enhancement to disklabel Command |
| 6.17 | Support for ODBC and JDBC Data Access |
| 6.18 | Netscape Communicator Version 4.05 |
| 6.19 | Netscape FastTrack Server Version 3.01 |
| 6.20 | Ability for Users to Create a Customized Installation CD-ROM |
| 7 | New and Changed Features in Version 4.0F |
| 7.1 | New Hardware Support |
| 7.2 | Support for Fibre Channel Based Storage |
| 7.3 | Logical Partitions for AlphaServer GS140 System |
| 7.4 | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| 7.5 | ATM PACING VC Bandwidth Accounting Change |
| 7.6 | Extensions to atom's Programmable Interfaces |
| 7.7 | Ability to Examine the Stack of a User Program that Caused a Kernel Crash Dump |
| 7.8 | Compaq Analyze Utility |
| 7.9 | Secure Version of syslog |
| 7.10 | Changes to VFS and AdvFS Tunable Attributes |
| 7.11 | Visual Threads |
| 7.12 | Bootable Tape Enhancements |
| 7.13 | Compaq Advanced Printing Software |
| 7.14 | Netscape Communicator Version 4.5 |
| 7.15 | Compaq Insight Manager |
| 7.16 | Support for Universal Serial Bus Keyboards and Mice |
| 7.17 | AltaVista Search on Documentation CD-ROM |
| 7.18 | Support for Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) |
| 7.19 | Availability of COM for Tru64 UNIX |
| 8 | New and Changed Features in Version 5.0 |
| 8.1 | Scalability Enhancements |
| 8.2 | Installation Improvements |
| 8.3 | System Management |
| 8.3.1 | Event Manager |
| 8.3.2 | Exporting Tru64 UNIX System Management Data Using SNMP |
| 8.3.3 | SysMan Integration and Application Access |
| 8.3.4 | New and Changed SysMan Configuration Applications |
| 8.4 | File Systems and Storage |
| 8.4.1 | File Systems Support for Increased Subdirectories and Links |
| 8.5 | New Networking Features |
| 8.6 | DAPBA and DAPCA ATM Adapter Support |
| 8.7 | Advanced Server for UNIX |
| 8.8 | Enhanced TruCluster Support |
| 8.9 | Documentation |
| 8.10 | Additional Changes |
| 8.10.1 | Changes to Device Naming |
| 8.10.2 | Changes to Data Structures to Support Larger File Systems and Storage |
| 8.10.3 | Swap Device List and /sbin/swapdefault Moved to /etc/sysconfigtab |
| 8.10.4 | Hot Swap Support |
| 8.10.5 | Kernel Attribute Changes |
| 8.10.6 | Kernel Tuning Attribute Changes |
| 8.10.7 | System Management |
| 8.10.7.1 | Enhanced Hardware Management |
| 8.10.7.2 | Insight Manager Integrated with sys_check |
| 8.10.7.3 | New /etc/rc.config.common File |
| 8.10.7.4 | Mail Enhancements |
| 8.10.7.5 | Enhancement to the shutdown Command |
| 8.10.7.6 | Change in root crontab Behavior |
| 8.10.7.7 | NetRAIN Interface Configuration |
| 8.10.8 | AdvFS File System |
| 8.10.8.1 | Fileset Creation with var Area in /usr |
| 8.10.8.2 | New On-Disk Format for AdvFS Domains |
| 8.10.8.3 | New AdvFS System Attributes |
| 8.10.8.4 | Ehancement to the quotacheck Command |
| 8.10.8.5 | QUOTACHECK_CONFIG Environment Variable |
| 8.10.9 | Logical Storage Manager Meta-Data Changes |
| 8.10.10 | Development Environment |
| 8.10.10.1 | New Features in Object-File and Symbol-Table Formats |
| 8.10.10.2 | Time Zone Enhancements |
| 8.10.10.3 | New Graphical Program Analysis Tools (GPA) |
| 8.10.10.4 | Visual Threads Tool for Threads Debugging |
| 8.10.10.5 | OpenMP API |
| 8.10.10.6 | Profile-Based Optimization Support |
| 8.10.10.7 | Integrated Profiling Commands |
| 8.10.10.8 | Extensions to atom Command's Programmable Interfaces |
| 8.10.10.9 | Change to Profiling of Threaded Programs with hiprof |
| 8.10.10.10 | SIGFPE Signal Code Usage Changes |
| 8.10.10.11 | Double Long Type is Now 128 Bits |
| 8.10.10.12 | 64-bit Time-Handling Interfaces |
| 8.10.10.13 | DECthreads Process-Shared Synchronization Objects |
| 8.10.10.14 | DECthreads Debug Assistant Library |
| 8.10.10.15 | DECthreads Read-Write Locks |
| 8.10.10.16 | DECthreads Thread Stack and Backing Store Allocation |
| 8.10.10.17 | DECthreads Thread Stack Overflow Warning Area |
| 8.10.10.18 | The malloc Function Is Now Tunable |
| 8.10.11 | Commands and Utilities |
| 8.10.11.1 | DXMtools |
| 8.10.11.2 | Improvements to the Program Stack |
| 8.10.11.3 | Changes to the iostat Disk Statistics Fields |
| 8.10.11.4 | Changes to ACL-Related Features |
| 8.10.12 | Security |
| 8.10.12.1 | Login Success and Failure Logging is Optional |
| 8.10.12.2 | Enabling and Disabling ACLs |
| 8.10.12.3 | ACL Management Utility |
| 8.10.12.4 | Shadow Password Support |
| 8.10.12.5 | Netscape Communicator |
| 8.10.13 | Window Systems Software |
| 8.10.13.1 | X Environment |
| 8.10.13.2 | Enabling Microsoft Windows Keys |
| 8.10.13.3 | CDE Setup |
| 8.10.13.4 | CDE Window List |
| 8.10.13.5 | X Server Command Line Option to Get Old Vendor String |
| 9 | New and Changed Features in Version 5.0A |
| 9.1 | Support for TruCluster Server |
| 9.2 | CAM Layered Components Integrated into the Base Operating System |
| 9.3 | Collect Data Collection Tool |
| 9.4 | Event Manager |
| 9.5 | Support for DE602-FA |
| 9.6 | Additional Changes |
| 9.6.1 | AlphaServer DS20E |
| 9.6.2 | Mail Servers Enhancements |
| 9.6.3 | Turning Off Security Checks for Sendmail Support Files |
| 9.6.4 | Direct I/O Performance Improvements |
| 9.6.5 | UFS Delayed Metadata Mount Option |
| 9.6.6 | New Mount Options |
| 9.6.7 | New vfs Subsystem Attributes |
| 9.6.8 | New Options in SysMan Menu for NTP |
| 9.6.9 | ToolTalk Security Enhancement |
| 9.6.10 | XEmacs |
| 9.6.11 | Netscape Communicator Version 4.7 |
| 9.6.12 | Ladebug |
| 9.6.13 | TruType Rasterizer Support |
| 9.6.14 | Intelligent ABC Input Method for Simplified Chinese |
| 9.6.15 | AlphaServer 8400/GS140 Power Supply Monitoring |
| 9.6.16 | MAXCLIENTS Attribute |
| 9.6.17 | New Base Operating System CD-ROM Format |
| 9.6.18 | Enhancements to the Documentation CD-ROM |
| 10 | Features and Interfaces Retired in Version 5.0 |
| 10.1 | Retired in Version 5.0 |
| 10.1.1 | td0 Disk Size Requirement for Installation |
| 10.1.2 | LVM-to-LSM Migration Tools |
| 10.1.3 | LSM Block Change Logging (BCL) |
| 10.1.4 | LSM volprint Command Format |
| 10.1.5 | The ntpdc Command |
| 10.1.6 | Previous C Compiler |
| 10.1.7 | DEC C Compiler Default Changed from -std0 to -std |
| 10.1.8 | C Language Long Double Type Has Changed to 128 bits |
| 10.1.9 | Replaced pixie Profiler |
| 10.1.10 | XIsso and XSysAdmin Programs |
| 10.1.11 | Remote Prestoserve Support |
| 10.1.12 | System Management Utilities |
| 10.1.13 | Different Versions of awk |
| 10.1.14 | XPG3 ctab Locales |
| 10.1.15 | Retirement of libsecurity.a |
| 10.1.16 | Adobe Display PostScript, Client Libraries, and X Server Extension |
| 10.1.17 | Open3D Device Support |
| 10.1.18 | Nonconforming Curses Library |
| 10.1.19 | Nemacs |
| 10.1.20 | DECwindows Applications |
| 10.1.21 | secsetup Script Retirement |
| 10.1.22 | Security Interfaces |
| 10.1.23 | PEX Extensions |
| 11 | Features and Interfaces Retired in Version 5.0A |
| 11.1 | Features Retired in Version 5.0A |
| 11.1.1 | DECwindows Applications |
| 11.1.2 | DEC C Compiler Default Changed from -std0 to -std |
| 11.1.3 | Sendmail Version 5.65 |
| 11.1.4 | MH/POP |
| 11.1.5 | The cc.alt Compiler |
| 11.1.6 | System V Environment |
| 11.2 | Hardware Support Retirement Notices |
| 11.2.1 | Hardware Support Retired in Version 5.0A |
| 11.2.1.1 | KZESC and KZPSC Array Controllers |
| Tables |
| 10-1 | Retired DECwindows Applications |
| 10-2 | Retired CDA Applications |
| 10-3 | Retired libsecurity Interfaces |
| 10-4 | Retired libsecurity Interfaces Associated Data Structures |
| 11-1 | Retired DECwindows Applications |
| 11-2 | Retired CDA Applications |
| Index |