FLOSS on NonStop User Manual

About This Document
This manual describes how to install, migrate, and uninstall FLOSS (Freeware Look for OSS) on
HP NonStop™ systems. This document is intended for software developers and administrators.
This manual includes information about:
• Features of FLOSS
• FLOSS commands and libraries that assist in porting a software package to NonStop system
Supported Release Version Updates (RVUs)
This publication supports J06.04 and all subsequent J-series RVUs, and H06.15 and all subsequent
H-series RVUs, until otherwise indicated by its replacement publications.
Intended Audience
This manual is intended for the NonStop administrators who install, configure, and manage FLOSS,
and software developers who want to port software packages to NonStop systems. You must be
an experienced user of HP NonStop systems and be familiar with the Open System Services (OSS)
environment.
Related Manuals
Table 1 Related Manuals
DescriptionDocument name
This guide provides basic orientation, tutorial, and task information
for using the OSS shell and utilities. It is written for all audiences:
system administrators, managers, and operators; end users; and
application and system programmers.
Open System Services User’s Guide
This manual presents rules and syntax for each command that the
user enters interactively to access the OSS command interpreter
(called the shell), and utilities and other functions that perform
general-purpose and program-development operations. It is written
for all audiences: system administrators, managers, and operators;
end users; and application and system programmers.
Open System Services Shell and Utilities
Reference Manual
This manual describes all OSS system calls (file system and kernel
functions), their syntax, required external data structures, resulting
operations, and source file (header) locations for all literals and
symbolic definitions. It is written for application and system
programmers.
Open System Services System Calls Reference
Manual
This guide describes conversion techniques for moving existing
C-language applications into the OSS environment. It discusses both
C-language and operating system considerations. This guide is
intended for application programmers, with some information for
selected operating system users.
Open System Services Porting Guide
This manual describes syntax and semantics of the C run-time library
calls and header files for the OSS environment. This manual is
intended for system and application programmers.
Open System Services Library Calls Reference
Manual
This manual describes the syntax for most Guardian procedure calls.
It is intended for system and application programmers.
Guardian Procedure Calls Reference Manual
New and Changed Information in This Edition
This is a new manual.
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