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Read Before Installing DCE for DIGITAL UNIX Version 2.1 
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Dear Customer:

Congratulations on your purchase of the DCE for DIGITAL UNIX Version 
2.1 product!

This letter provides the information you need to get started in
installing and using DCE for DIGITAL UNIX Version 2.1.  Note that 
the Version 2.0 documentation included in this kit has not been 
revised to reflect the Version 2.1 version number.  Instead, 
documentation updates are captured in the Release Notes.  


Installation Information
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You may want to read the Software Product Description (SPD 43.06.05) 
before installing any software to ensure that your system satisfies
the specified software and hardware requirements.  

Before you install and run DCE for DIGITAL UNIX Version 2.1, for some 
subsets, you first must register and load a License Product 
Authorization Key (License PAK) using the License Management Facility 
(LMF).  See the "DCE for DIGITAL UNIX Installation and Configuration" 
guide for more information about using License PAKs.  Also see this 
guide for instructions on installing the DCE for DIGITAL UNIX kit.


Release Notes
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The Release Notes include a summary of problems addressed in this 
kit, new features, important notes, known problems, and documentation
errata and notes.  The Release Notes are included on the layered
software products CD-ROM, in ASCII and POSTSCRIPT® formats, in the 
ascii_doc and ps_doc directories, respectively.  After you have 
installed DCE for DIGITAL UNIX, you can find the Release Notes in the
following directories:

/opt/dce/share/doc/DCE210_Relnotes.txt

/opt/dce/share/doc/DCE210_Relnotes.ps


Documentation
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The books located on the CD-ROM reside on the Bookreader bookshelf 
named DCE for DIGITAL UNIX.  Before using the Bookreader books, see 
the DIGITAL UNIX 4.0  Layered Products’ "Compact Disc User’s Guide" 
that accompanies the CD-ROM distribution kit.

The following lists summarize the books available with this product.

Bookreader versions of the Prentice Hall OSF DCE documentation set
include:

*  "Introduction to OSF DCE":  Provides an introduction to the OSF 
   Distributed Computing Environment (DCE).  The glossary introduces 
   terms used throughout the DCE documentation.
 
*  "OSF DCE Administration Guide":  Consists of two volumes:
 
   -  "OSF DCE Administration Guide Introduction":  Describes 
      administering DCE as a whole, including planning and
      configuration information.
 
   -  "OSF DCE Administration Guide Core Components":  Describes 
      management DCE RPC, CDS, DTS, and the security service.
 
*  "OSF DCE Command Reference":  For system and network 
   administrators, describes the correct syntax for DCE 
   administrative commands.

*  "OSF DCE Application Development Guide-Introduction and Style 
   Guide":  For application developers, describes how to program 
   with DCE in general and how to use various components and 
   facilities.  It also describes relevant issues regarding 
   distributed applications.

*  "OSF DCE Application Development Guide-Core Components":  For 
   application programmers, describes how to use the DCE application 
   programming interfaces (APIs).

*  "OSF DCE Application Development Guide-Directory Services":  
   Describes DCE naming, access to CDS through XDS, use of the X/Open 
   Directory Service Interface, and the Object Classification Tables 
   and other information on XDS, X.500 Directory, and GDS objects.

*  "OSF DCE Application Development Reference":  For application 
   programmers, describes the correct syntax for DCE routines.

*  "OSF DCE DFS Administration Guide and Reference":  Describes the 
   concepts and procedures for managing DFS in a DCE cell.  It 
   provides detailed reference information about the complete syntax 
   and use of each DFS command and configuration file.

*  "OSF DCE Problem Determination Guide":  Lists all DCE error 
   messages and status codes, along with explanations and recovery 
   actions.  This guide is written for DCE application programmers 
   and system and network administrators.

Note that there may be some differences between the Bookreader books 
on your CD-ROM and the separately orderable Prentice Hall OSF DCE 
printed books.

The following books document DIGITAL’s implementation of OSF DCE:

*  "DCE for DIGITAL UNIX Installation and Configuration":  Describes 
   the installation and configuration procedures for the DCE subsets.
 
*  "Configuring the Distributed File Service":  Describes the 
   configuration procedures for the DFS subsets.

*  "DCE for DIGITAL UNIX Product Guide":  Provides supplemental 
   information necessary to use DIGITAL’s implementation of OSF DCE.

*  "DCE for DIGITAL UNIX Reference Guide":  Provides reference 
   information necessary to use DIGITAL’s implementation of OSF DCE.

The following books are published by O’Reilly & Associates and are 
not available in Bookreader format:

*  "Understanding DCE":  For users, administrators, and programmers, 
   provides general information about DCE operation.

*  "Guide to Writing DCE Applications":  Describes how to develop 
   programs using DCE RPC.


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