Introduction to TRANSFER Delivery System

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Contents
About This Manual vii
1. The TRANSFER Delivery System
Overview 1
What TRANSFER Does for You 4
Managing the Flow of Information 4
Distributing Transactions over a Period of Time 6
TRANSFER Applications 7
TRANSFER and Tandem Software 10
GUARDIAN 90 and EXPAND—Distributed Processing 10
GUARDIAN 90 10
EXPAND 12
PATHWAY—Online Transaction Processing 13
TMF—Transaction Monitoring for Database Consistency 16
TRANSFER—Package Transport 17
Summary of the TRANSFER Delivery System 20
2. The TRANSFER Environment
Overview 1
Correspondents 2
Interest Groups 2
Depots 3
Profiles 5
Distribution Lists 6
Folders 7
Items 9
Packages 10
The Way Depots Work 12
Depot Security 14
Wild-Card Names and Patterns 15
TRANSFER Processes 16
Clients 16
Servers 17
TRANSFER Asynchronous Processes 18
Agents 20
Sessions 22
3. PS MAIL
Overview 1
The Electronic Desk 2