COMPAQ Cover Letter for OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 7.2 AV-PXHPH-TE Dear OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Customer, Enclosed is your OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 7.2 kit. It runs on top of OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.2 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 Compaq's Chinese lay- ered products as well as third party and in-house developed Chinese applications o a programming environment for the development of Chinese applications o Translated Image Environment for application software migra- tion from OpenVMS/Hanzi VAX platform to OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha platform o a high quality Chinese printing support (Asian Printing Support sub-kit) o world wide text-to-PostScript printing subsystem o year 2000 compliance New Feature on World-Wide PostScript Print Subsystem The World-wide PostScript Print Subsystem (WWPPS) is a generic text-to-PostScript converter that converts various single-byte and multi-byte characters to printable PostScript and submit to PostScript printer through OpenVMS Print Symbiont. Year 2000 Readiness OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 7.2 is fully Year 2000 ready. This version of OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha includes all the Year 2000 En- hancement that shipped in the Year 2000 kits for OpenVMS Alpha. For more information about the new features and changes since OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 7.1, please refer to OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 7.2 Release Notes. Chinese Utilities OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 7.2 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 charac- ters 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 User Environment OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 7.2 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/Hanzi Alpha Version 7.2 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 2 High Quality Chinese Printing Support OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 7.2 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 Compaq laser printers. 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 7,140 pagelets Global Sections 38 sections Maximum disk space utilization during installation with DECwindows Motif /Hanzi fonts 118,700 blocks without DECwindows Motif /Hanzi 87,400 blocks fonts Net disk space utilization after installation with DECwindows Motif /Hanzi fonts 115,600 blocks without DECwindows Motif /Hanzi 84,900 blocks fonts Upgrade and Installation OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha is distributed as a binary kit on Compaq Software Libaray CD-ROM. Procedures for setting up the system disk and for preparing the system for day-to-day operations are described in OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 7.2 Installation Guide. OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 7.2 requires OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.2 as the prerequisite software. Follow the steps below to install OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 7.2: 1. Prepare an OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.2 system. For details, please read OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.2 Upgrade and Installa- tion Manual. 2. Register the OpenVMS/Hanzi 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 3. Use POLYCENTER Software Installation (PCSI) utility to in- stall OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 7.2. OpenVMS/Hanzi 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. 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/Hanzi Alpha V7.2 Installation Guide. 5. If users want to utilize the World-Wide PostScript Printing Sub-system (WWPPS), proper locale file from VMSI18N kit and DECprint Supervisor (DCPS) for OpenVMS V1.0c or later must be installed using VMSINSTAL procedure. For more information, please refer to the OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha V7.2 Release Notes, OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha V7.2 Installation Guide and DECprint Supervisor for OpenVMS 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. Media and Documentation OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 7.2 media and documentation can be ordered separately. OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha binaries are distributed on Compaq Soft- ware Libaray CD-ROM. OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha documentation is also available. Users who want the documentation have to order it separately. Media and documentation order numbers are as fol- lows: o Compaq Software Libaray CD-ROM: QA-03XAA-H8.AK01 o OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 7.2 Release Notes: AA-PXHNF-TE o OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 7.2 Installation Guide: AA-PXHMF- TE o OpenVMS/Hanzi User Guide: AA-PXHQA-TE o HEVE User Guide: AA-PXHTA-TE o HTPU and HEVE Reference Manual: AA-PXHUA-TE o Character Manager User Guide: AA-PXHVA-TE o OpenVMS/Hanzi RTL Chinese Processing (HSY$) Manual: AA-PXHSA- TE o OpenVMS/Hanzi RTL Chinese Screen Management (SMG$) Manual: AA-PXHRA-TE o Asian Printing Support for OpenVMS Version 1.0 Installation Guide: AA-Q5TLA-TE 4 o Asian Printing Support for OpenVMS Version 1.0 Release Notes: AA-Q5TMA-TE © Compaq Computer Limited 1999 All rights reserved. 5