Hewlett-Packard Cover Letter for HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3 BA322-90048 August 2006 Dear HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Customer, Hewlett-Packard is pleased to introduce the HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3 operating system. Enclosed is your HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3 kit. It runs on top of HP Open- VMS Alpha Version 8.3 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 HP'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 HP OpenVMS/Hanzi VAX platform to HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha platform o a high quality Chinese printing support (Asian Printing Support sub-kit) The enclosed kit contains the binary kit of HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3 which is to be installed on HP OpenVMS Alpha Version 8.3. Chinese Utilities HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3 provides the following Chi- nese 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 HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3 provides the following fea- tures 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 HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3 provides the following fea- tures 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 Debugger utility with Chinese characters support High Quality Chinese Printing Support HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3 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 installs 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 HP laser printers. For information on features of Asian Printing Support, please refer to Asian Printing Support for OpenVMS Version 1.0 Release Notes. 2 Installation Requirements Global Pages 6,100 pagelets Global Sections 35 sections Maximum disk space utilization during installation with DECwindows Motif/Hanzi fonts 73,500 blocks without DECwindows Motif/Hanzi 43,500 blocks fonts Net disk space utilization after installation with DECwindows Motif/Hanzi fonts 63,000 blocks without DECwindows Motif/Hanzi 33,200 blocks fonts Upgrade and Installation HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3 requires HP OpenVMS Alpha Version 8.3 as the prerequisite software. Follow the steps below to install HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3: 1. Prepare a HP OpenVMS Alpha Version 8.3 system. For details, please read HP OpenVMS Alpha Version 8.3 Upgrade and Instal- lation Manual. 2. Register the HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Product Authorization Key on your system using the License Management Facility (LMF). For information about LMF, please refer to HP OpenVMS License Management Utility Manual. 3. Use POLYCENTER Software Installation (PCSI) utility to in- stall HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3. 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 Debugger utility, the proper locale file from DEC-AXPVMS- VMSI18N-V0803--1.PCSI kit must be installed using the PCSI Utility. For more information, please refer to the HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3 Installation Guide. 5. If users want to utilize the World-Wide PostScript Printing Subsystem (WWPPS), the proper locale file from DEC-AXPVMS- VMSI18N-V0803--1.PCSI kit and DECprint Supervisor (DCPS) for OpenVMS must be installed. For more information, please refer to the HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3 Release Notes, HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3 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. 3 Media and Documentation HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3 media and documentation can be ordered separately. HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha binaries are distributed on the HP Open- VMS Alpha Software Products Library CD-ROM. HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha documentation is also available. Users who want the docu- mentation have to order it separately. Media and documentation order numbers are as follows: o HP OpenVMS Alpha Software Products Library CD-ROM: QA-03XAA- H8.BP01 o HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3 Release Notes: BA322-90049 o HP OpenVMS/Hanzi Alpha Version 8.3 Installation Guide: BA322- 90050 o HP OpenVMS/Hanzi User Guide: BA322-90016 o HEVE User Guide: BA322-90019 o HTPU and HEVE Reference Manual: BA322-90020 o Character Manager User Guide: BA322-90021 o HP OpenVMS/Hanzi RTL Chinese Processing (HSY$) Manual: BA322- 90018 o HP OpenVMS/Hanzi RTL Chinese Screen Management (SMG$) Manual: BA322-90017 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 © Hewlett-Packard HK SAR Limited 2006 All rights reserved. 4