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V9 Documentation

Post by cct » Wed Apr 26, 2023 10:31 am

I know a few documents for V9... have been released, apart from release notes, but are any others available? The documentation page doesn't appear to have any shown.

I am particularly interested in the network related docs

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Re: V9 Documentation

Post by m_detommaso » Wed Apr 26, 2023 11:12 am



I assume you are looking for documentation related to TCP/IP or Decnet.

go to https://docs.vmssoftware.com/

In the filter box, type tcp or decnet and many interesting documents will appear.

Of course, you will also find a lot of other documentation related to VMS and its layered.

I hope this helps.

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Re: V9 Documentation

Post by volkerhalle » Wed Apr 26, 2023 11:58 am

Chris,

OpenVMS is OpenVMS is OpenVMS ...

My guess is that 99% of the current documentation for V8.4 will also correctly describe V9.x

Anything else should be found in the Release Notes and the other E9.2-1 fieldtest documentation.

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Re: V9 Documentation

Post by cct » Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:04 pm

Thanks

I will try with the older versions.

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Re: V9 Documentation

Post by marty.stu » Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:39 pm

Hi Chris,

Speaking about the updated documentation for the network stack, you can find the updated manuals at the links below:

https://docs.vmssoftware.com/vsi-tcpip- ... s-guide-60
https://docs.vmssoftware.com/vsi-tcpip- ... management

We are working on gradually updating the documentation for OpenVMS, and some of the manuals do get minor updates from time to time, but the focus is on the documents that are completely new or contain major changes caused by different architectures and their specific features, i.e. the ones that you mentioned in your starting post. However, Volker's statement is correct and most of the documentation from earlier versions applies to V9.x as well, so you should not expect any big changes in the majority of the manuals.
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Re: V9 Documentation

Post by cct » Wed Apr 26, 2023 1:07 pm

Thanks - will look at them

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