DIGITAL Cover Letter for OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1 AV-PXHBE-TE Dear OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Customer, Enclosed is your OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1 kit. It runs on top of OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.1 and provides the following sophisticated Chinese features: o a rich set of Chinese utilities for programmers, system managers and general users o a Chinese environment for users to run Digital's Chinese layered products as well as third party and in-house devel- oped Chinese applications o a programming environment for the development of Chinese applications o Translated Image Environment for application software migra- tion from OpenVMS/Hanyu VAX platform to OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha platform o a high quality Chinese printing support (Asian Printing Support sub-kit) OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1 is an OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha re- lease since Version 7.0. New Feature on DEBUG Utility DEBUG utility is enhanced to support Chinese characters on both character cell terminal and graphic (DECwindows Motif) interface workstation. Users can input Chinese characters in DEBUG utility. The DEBUG utility is able to print and echo Chinese characters in its output. In order to utilize DEBUG for Chinese characters support, the locale files for Chinese are required to be installed on OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1 from the VMSI18N kit. The VMSI18N kit can be found in the OpenVMS distribution media. The saveset name is VMSI18N071 and the locale file for Chinese characters support in OpenVMS/Hanyu is "Chinese". 1 For more information about the new features and changes since OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.0, please refer to OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1 Release Notes. Chinese Utilities OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1 provides the following Chinese utilities: o HMAIL Extended OpenVMS MAIL utility that supports Chinese o HDUMP Extended OpenVMS DUMP utility that displays English and Chinese characters properly o HTPU and HEVE Utilities to perform Chinese text processing and editing o SEARCH Extended OpenVMS SEARCH utility that supports Chinese char- acters in the search string o SORT/MERGE Extended OpenVMS SORT/MERGE utility that supports Chinese collating sequences and character-based sorting o CMGR Character management utility to support user-defined charac- ters o Chinese TFF Extended OpenVMS Terminal Fallback Facility that enables OpenVMS/Hanyu to support Chinese terminals and printers that support the Big 5 or Telex Code codeset o Phrase Input Utility A utility that enables users to use the phrase input capa- bility of the VT382-D Chinese terminal 2 User Environment OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1 provides the following features in its Chinese environment for general users: o Terminal I/O support for Chinese characters o Terminal I/O support for user-defined characters o Chinese support in DCL o Chinese help text o Chinese system messages o Chinese date and time display Programming Environment OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1 provides the following features for the development of Chinese applications: o SORT and MERGE callable routines for sorting and merging English and Chinese data o Chinese SMG for screen management o Chinese Processing Run Time Library for general Chinese processing requirements o HTPU built-in procedures and callable routines for English and Chinese text processing in a character cell terminal or DECwindows Motif environment o DEBUG utility with Chinese characters support High Quality Chinese Printing Support OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1 provides high quality Chinese printing support in the Asian Printing Support sub-kit called ASPS010, which is included in the same distribution media. This sub-kit is to install Asian Printing Support Version 1.0 for OpenVMS, which adds high quality Chinese character printing capability to DECprint Supervisor software Version 1.0C or above. It allows users to print Chinese text and postscript documents with Digital laser printers. 3 For information on features of Asian Printing Support, please refer to Asian Printing Support for OpenVMS Version 1.0 Release Notes. Installation Requirements Global Pages 7,000 pagelets Global Sections 34 sections Maximum disk space utilization during installation with DECwindows Motif /Hanyu fonts 77,200 blocks without DECwindows Motif /Hanyu 46,000 blocks fonts Net disk space utilization after installation with DECwindows Motif /Hanyu fonts 75,100 blocks without DECwindows Motif /Hanyu 43,900 blocks fonts Upgrade and Installation OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha is distributed as a binary kit on Software Binaries CD-ROM. Procedures for setting up the system disk and for preparing the system for day-to-day operations are de- scribed in OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1 Installation Guide. OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1 requires OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.1 as the prerequisite software. Follow the steps below to install OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1: 1. Prepare an OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.1 system. For de- tails, please read OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.1 Upgrade and Installation Manual. 2. Register the OpenVMS/Hanyu Product Authorization Key on your system using the License Management Facility (LMF). For information about LMF, please refer to OpenVMS License Management Utility Manual. 3. Use POLYCENTER Software Installation (PCSI) utility to in- stall OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1. OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha is now installed using PCSI instead of VMSINSTAL procedure. For information on PCSI, please refer to the POLYCENTER Software Installation (PCSI) Utility User's Guide. 4 UPGRADING FROM OPENVMS/HANYU ALPHA VERSION 6.2 If you are upgrading from OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 6.2, you MUST install the AXPHY062_MUP1 mup kit before using PCSI to restore from OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 6.2 system to OpenVMS Alpha Version 6.2 system. Otherwise you will lose all data stored in the CMGR database for user-defined characters. The mup kit, AXPHY062_MUP1, is shipped together with OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1. The mup kit has to be installed using POLYCENTER Software Installation (PCSI) util- ity. Please read the OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1 Installation Guide and AXPHY062_MUP1.RELEASE_NOTES for details. 4. If users want to have Chinese characters support on the DEBUG Utility, proper locale file from VMSI18N kit must be installed using VMSINSTAL procedure. For more information, please refer to the OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha V7.1 Installation Guide. For information on the installation of Asian Printing Support sub-kit, please refer to Asian Printing Support for OpenVMS Version 1.0 Installation Guide. Installation Notes on Using DECwindows Motif /Hanyu V1.2-3 Users need to install a patch kit after installing DECwindows Motif I18N V1.2-3 in order for DECwindows Motif /Hanyu to work properly. The patch kit named ALPDWMW01_U3012 is shipped to- gether with OpenVMS Alpha V7.1. This kit is to be installed using VMSINSTAL procedure. Media and Documentation OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1 media and documentation can be ordered separately. OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha binaries are distributed on Software Binaries CD-ROM. OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha documentation is also available. Users who want the documentation have to order it separately. Media and documentation order numbers are as follows: o Software Binaries CD-ROM: AG-PXTAE-XE o OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1 Release Notes: AA-PXHAE-TE 5 o OpenVMS/Hanyu Alpha Version 7.1 Installation Guide: AA- PXH9E-TE o OpenVMS/Hanyu User Guide: AA-PXHCA-TE o HEVE User Guide: AA-PXHFA-TE o HTPU and HEVE Reference Manual: AA-PXHGA-TE o Character Manager User Guide: AA-PXHHA-TE o Phrase Input Utility User Guide: AA-PXHJA-TE o OpenVMS/Hanyu RTL Chinese Processing (HSY$) Manual: AA- PXHEA-TE o OpenVMS/Hanyu RTL Chinese Screen Management (SMG$) Manual: AA-PXHDA-TE o Asian Printing Support for OpenVMS Version 1.0 Installation Guide: AA-Q5TLA-TE o Asian Printing Support for OpenVMS Version 1.0 Release Notes: AA-Q5TMA-TE © Digital Computer Taiwan Limited 1997 All rights reserved. 6