MERANT Micro Focus Server Express™

Server Express User's Guide

MERANT™

Issue 3
March 2000

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Preface

This book explains concepts of Server Express, and how to compile, link and run programs.

Audience

You should be familiar with the COBOL language and with your operating system. You should read the Getting Started before reading this book.

Notation

The notation used in the books is as follows:

Enter refers to the carriage-return or Enter key. Where commands to be typed are shown, the Enter key is not shown. It is treated as implicit that the Enter key must be pressed at the end of the line.
Hexadecimal numbers are enclosed in quotation marks and preceded by a lower-case "x" or "h"; for example, x"9D", h"03FF". The "x" is used when the hexadecimal number represents a character string; the "h" when it represents a numerical value.
With COMP-X and COMP-5, PIC X is used rather than PIC 99. Unlike PIC 99, PIC X shows the length of the data item directly and so demonstrates more clearly the use of COMP-X, which is to define a binary item of the specified number of bytes.

Command Lines

The notation used to describe the format of command lines is as follows:

Words printed in italics are generic terms representing names to be devised by you.
Words printed in nonitalic characters are the actual words you must enter. You must type them in upper or lower case as shown.
Square brackets [ ] mean the material inside them is optional.
Braces { } mean you must choose from the options inside them. If there is only one option in the braces, they mean repetition.
An ellipsis (...) following { } or [ ] means you can repeat the material inside them. The number of repetitions allowed is unlimited unless otherwise stated. Square brackets [ ] with an ellipsis mean you can omit the material altogether.
If a command line does not fit across the page, it is continued on the next line; the continuation line is indented.
The books may refer you to the Release Notes for details specific to a particular UNIX platform.
All command line formats and examples are for the standard UNIX shell, the Bourne shell. If you are using another shell, see your UNIX documentation for the appropriate formats.
Where examples showing environment variables do not specifically show them being exported to the shell, it is treated as implicit that they are exported.
Some keystrokes using function keys or the Alt or Ctrl keys are not available on all UNIX platforms. This book contains a UNIX key usage chart, listing how the keystrokes shown in the books map onto actual keystrokes.

Notes

F1=Help appears on every menu in character-mode Micro Focus software. It invokes a help screen describing the current menu. F1=Help is not described in the documentation.
What appears on your screen might differ in minor ways (for example, version numbers) from that illustrated in the books. This will not affect the operation of your software.