Open System Services Porting Guide (G06.24+, H06.03+)
Table Of Contents
- What’s New in This Manual
- About This Manual
- 1 Introduction to Porting
- 2 The Development Environment
- 3 Useful Porting Tools
- 4 Interoperating Between User Environments
- Purpose of Interoperability
- The OSS User Environment
- OSS Commands for the Guardian User
- Guardian Commands for the UNIX User
- OSS Pathname and Guardian Filename Conversions
- Running the OSS Shell and Commands From TACL
- Running Guardian Commands From the OSS Shell
- Running OSS Processes With Guardian Attributes
- Using OSS Commands to Manage Guardian Objects
- 5 Interoperating Between Programming Environments
- 6 OSS Porting Considerations
- 7 Porting UNIX Applications to the OSS Environment
- 8 Migrating Guardian Applications to the OSS Environment
- General Migration Guidelines
- C Compiler Issues for Guardian Programs
- Using New and Extended Guardian Procedures
- Using OSS Functions in a Guardian Program
- Interoperating With OSS Programs
- Starting an OSS Program From the Guardian Environment
- C Compiler Considerations for OSS Programs
- Porting a Guardian Program to the OSS Environment
- How Arguments Are Passed to the C or C++ Program
- Differences in the Two Run-Time Environments
- Which Run-Time Routines Are Available
- Use of Common Run-Time Environment (CRE) Functions
- Replacing Guardian Procedure Calls With Equivalent OSS Functions
- Which IPC Mechanisms Can Be Used
- Interactions Between Guardian and OSS Functions
- 9 Porting From Specific UNIX Systems
- 10 Native Migration Overview
- 11 Porting or Migrating Sockets Applications
- 12 Porting Threaded Applications
- A Equivalent OSS and UNIX Commands for Guardian Users
- B Equivalent Guardian Commands for OSS and UNIX Users
- C Equivalent Inspect Debugging Commands for dbx Commands
- D Equivalent Native Inspect Debugging Commands for dbx Commands
- E Standard POSIX Threads Functions: Differences Between the Previous and Current Standards
- Glossary
- Index
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B-1
B
Equivalent Guardian Commands for
OSS and UNIX Users
Table B-1 provides a comparison of OSS and UNIX commands and similar or
equivalent Guardian commands. For each OSS and UNIX command, a description is
provided; if a similar or equivalent Guardian command exists, it is listed.
Table B-1. Equivalent Guardian Commands for OSS and UNIX
Users (page 1 of 5)
OSS and UNIX
Command Description
Guardian Commands or
TACL Macros
alias Defines or displays aliases
ALIAS in TACL library
file
ar Creates and maintains library archives
at Executes commands at a later time
NETBATCH
awk Pattern scanning and processing language
basename Returns nondirectory portion of pathname
#SET, #CHARFINDV,
#CHARGETV
bc Arbitrary-precision arithmetic language
COMPUTE
bg Runs jobs in background
TACL
c89 Compiles standard C or C++ programs
C
cancel Cancels line printer requests
PERUSE, JOB, DEL
cat Concatenates and prints files
FUP DUP,
FUP COPY
cd Changes working directory
VOLUME
chgrp Changes file group ownership
FUP GIVE
chmod Changes file modes
FUP SECURE
chown Changes file owner
FUP GIVE
cksum Writes file checksums and sizes
FUP CHECKSUM
cmp Compares two files
COMPARE
comm Selects or rejects lines common to two files
command Executes a simple command
compress Compresses data
* OSS command only.
Bracketed [ ] information indicates a series of command steps.