COMPAQ Cover Letter for OpenVMS/Thai Alpha Version 7.2 AV-PXJ0G-TE Dear OpenVMS/Thai Alpha Customer, Enclosed is your OpenVMS/Thai Alpha Version 7.2 kit. It runs on top of OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.2 and provides the following sophisticated Thai features: o a rich set of Thai utilities for programmers, system managers and general users o a Thai environment for users to run Compaq's Thai layered products as well as third party and in-house developed Thai applications o a programming environment for the development of Thai appli- cations o Translated Image Environment for application software mi- gration from OpenVMS/Thai VAX platform to OpenVMS/Thai Alpha platform o a high quality Thai printing support (Thai 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/Thai Alpha Version 7.2 is fully Year 2000 ready. This version of OpenVMS/Thai 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/Thai Alpha Version 7.1, please refer to OpenVMS/Thai Alpha Version 7.2 Release Notes. Thai Utilities OpenVMS/Thai Alpha Version 7.2 provides the following Thai utilities: o DECTPU and EVE Editor Utilities to perform Thai characters text processing and editing o ThaiEDT Extended OpenVMS EDT editor that supports Thai characters o SORT/MERGE Extended OpenVMS SORT/MERGE utility that supports Thai let- ters o Thai Print Symbiont A print symbiont that prints Thai characters on Thai printers User Environment OpenVMS/Thai Alpha Version 7.2 provides the following features in its Thai environment for general users: o Terminal I/O support for Thai characters o Thai support in DCL o Thai date and time display Programming Environment OpenVMS/Thai Alpha Version 7.2 provides the following features for the development of Thai applications: o SORT and MERGE callable routines for sorting and merging English and Thai data o character code translation functions in the OpenVMS RTL Library (LIB$) that have been extended to comply with TIS 620-2533 o the National Character Set (NCS) utility for string compar- ison and code conversion that supports the DECTIS collating sequence o Record Management Services (RMS) that supports Thai letters as record keys o Thai-Specific Run Time Library for general Thai processing requirements 2 High Quality Thai Printing Support OpenVMS/Thai Alpha Version 7.2 provides high quality Thai printing support in the Thai Printing Support sub-kit called THAIPS010, which is included in the same distribution media. This sub-kit is to install Thai Printing Support Version 1.0 for OpenVMS, which adds high quality Thai character printing capa- bility to DECprint Supervisor software Version 1.0C or above. It allows users to print Thai text and PostScript documents with Compaq laser printers. For information on features of Thai Printing Support, please refer to Thai Printing Support for OpenVMS Version 1.0 Release Notes. Installation Requirements Global Pages 680 pagelets Global Sections 10 sections Maximum disk space utilization during 64,600 blocks installation Net disk space utilization after 62,300 blocks installation Upgrade and Installation OpenVMS/Thai 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/Thai Alpha Version 7.2 Installation Guide. OpenVMS/Thai Alpha Version 7.2 requires OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.2 as the prerequisite software. Follow the steps below to install OpenVMS/Thai 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/Thai 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/Thai Alpha Version 7.2. OpenVMS/Thai 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 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/Thai Alpha V7.2 Release Notes, 3 OpenVMS/Thai Alpha V7.2 Installation Guide and DECprint Supervisor for OpenVMS Installation Guide. For information on the installation of Thai Printing Support sub-kit, please refer to Thai Printing Support for OpenVMS Version 1.0 Installation Guide. Media and Documentation OpenVMS/Thai Alpha Version 7.2 media and documentation can be ordered separately. OpenVMS/Thai Alpha binaries are distributed on Compaq Soft- ware Libaray CD-ROM. OpenVMS/Thai 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/Thai Alpha Version 7.2 Release Notes: AA-PXHZF-TE o OpenVMS/Thai Alpha Version 7.2 Installation Guide: AA-PXHYF- TE o OpenVMS/Thai User Guide: AA-PXJ1A-TE o Thai Printing Support for OpenVMS Version 1.0 Installation Guide: AA-Q5UKA-TE o Thai Printing Support for OpenVMS Version 1.0 Release Notes: AA-Q5ULA-TE © Compaq Computer (Thailand) Limited 1999 All rights reserved. 4