DCE Application Programming Guide
NonStop DCE Application Development 
Environment
HP NonStop DCE Application Programming Guide—429551-003
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The Location of Files
The Location of Files
The NonStop DCE application development environment is installed using the 
dce_config utility. These directories and files are installed:
Using DCE Documentation
The documentation supplied for NonStop DCE, as described in Further Reading on 
page x, consists of:
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OSF DCE manuals
•
Manuals and online reference pages specific to NonStop DCE
Some of the features and facilities described in the OSF manuals are not available in 
NonStop DCE. These unavailable features and facilities are listed in Unsupported 
Features on page 1-5.
References in the OSF manuals to the OSF DCE Application Development Reference 
can usually be applied to the corresponding NonStop DCE online reference page.
/usr/include/dce This directory contains the NonStop DCE 
header files and idl files, which support the 
NonStop DCE API and data types.
/usr/lib For a TNS installation of NonStop DCE, this 
directory contains the file libdce.so and 
might contain the file 
libdcehostname.so. These files contain 
an environment variable definition that 
names the location of the SRL:
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libdce.so names the location of the 
SRL supplied by the host that last 
updated the SRL.
•
libdcehostname.so names the 
location of the SRL to be used by the 
named virtual host.
This SRL supports all NonStop DCE APIs, 
including RPC, threads, security, and DTS.
/opt/dcelocal.hostname/bin This directory contains the NonStop DCE 
executables, including the IDL compiler idl 
and the UUID generation utility uuidgen.
/usr/lib/nls/msg/
en_US.ISO8859-1
This directory contains the message 
catalogs for the en_US.ISO8859-1 locale.
/opt/dcelocal.hostname/usr/
examples
This directory contains sample programs 
and applications that use DCE.










