OSI/MHS Orientation Guide

Building Your Message Handling System
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Where to Look
Manuals and Media Guide
Table 1-6 includes Compaq manuals and educational media that help you integrate
messaging applications and systems with OSI/MHS. Items are listed in one possible
reading order, but you will certainly find yourself moving back and forth among the
manuals as you work.
If you plan to write a gateway and are not familiar with the concepts of the XAPIA GPI
specifications, you should probably read or skim the OSI/MHS GPI Programming
Guide. If you are familiar with those concepts but need to know how the OSI/MHS GPI
implements the specifications, see the OSI/MHS GPI Reference Manual.
For brevity, Table 1-6 omits sources that describe how to set up an OSI/MHS
environment. If you have not yet set up an MHS environment, also see the list included
in “Setting Up a Backbone Messaging Network or Hub.”
In the table, represents a manual, represents a videotape, represents a
workbook, represents a lecture course, and represents information available to
Compaq technical support personnel through the Courier application.
Table 1-6. Manuals and Media for Using the Gateway Programmatic
Interface (page 1 of 2)
Title
Subject
Area Contents
Introduction to Compaq Net-
working and Data Communica-
tions
COMM/OSI Background on Compaq networking prod-
ucts, including MHS
OSI Fundamentals ISP OSI OSI technical overview
X.400 Concepts and Architec-
ture video
MHS X.400 technical overview
X.400 Configuration custom
workshop
1
MHS How to set up a messaging network
OSI/MHS Operation and Man-
agement
MHS How to operate and manage a messaging
network
OSI/MHS Gateway Programmatic
Interface (GPI) Programming
Guide
MHS How to use the OSI/MHS GPI
OSI/MHS Gateway Programmatic
Interface (GPI) Reference
Manual
MHS Syntax and semantics of GPI procedure
calls
Data Definition Language
(DDL) Ref Manual
Database Syntax and use of DDL
OSI/MHS Configuration and
Management Manual
MHS Background on configuration and man-
agement of OSI/MHS products
OSI/MHS SCF Reference
Manual
OSI How to set up the OSI/MHS subsystem
PTrace Reference Manual OSI How to interpret traces