Table of Contents

This book is for anyone who uses or administers a SCO Merge system and wants to understand more about how SCO Merge operates and how it can be customized. It complements your UNIX documentation, but it is not meant to be a complete administrator's guide for the UNIX operating system. For complete information on using the UNIX operating system, including comprehensive descriptions of commands, refer to the Operating System User's Guide and the System Administration Guide. This book covers SCO Merge on both the OpenServer and the UnixWare 7 systems.

You will find the information you need more quickly if you are familiar with:

• ``How this book is organized''

• ``Typographical conventions''

Although we try to present information in the most useful way, you are the ultimate judge of how well we succeed. Please let us know how we can improve this book.

How this book is organized

• ``About this book'' provides an overview of the contents of this guide and gives a list of the notational conventions used.

• Chapter 1, ``Getting started with DOS and Windows'', shows you how to use SCO Merge to start and stop a DOS or Windows session.

• Chapter 2, ``Installing Windows'', explains how to install and upgrade Microsoft® Windows.

• Chapter 3, ``Working in the SCO Merge environment'', describes the default DOS or Windows environment that SCO Merge makes available to you, including the ways in which it differs from a stand-alone DOS or Windows environment.

• Chapter 4, ``Configuring DOS and Windows sessions'', shows you how to use the various SCO Merge tools to change the default environment to suit your needs.

• Chapter 5, ``SCO Merge resource administration'', describes how to administer your system's hardware resources for use with SCO Merge.

• Chapter 6, ``Using SCO Merge from the command line'', describes how to run and configure DOS and Windows sessions from the command line.

• Chapter 7, ``Mixing the DOS and UNIX'', describes how to effectively use DOS and the UNIX system together.

• Appendix A, ``National language support'', describes SCO Merge features that support local languages in an environment shared by the DOS and UNIX operating systems.

• Appendix B, ``Using remote terminals'', describes how to use SCO Merge on remote X or remote serial terminals.

• Appendix C, ``Serial terminal information'', explains what is needed in a terminfo file so that you can run DOS on a serial terminal.

• Appendix D, ``Using Novell NetWare'', explains how you can access NetWare servers from a SCO Merge session.

• Appendix E, ``Tips for running and troubleshooting applications'', contains tips for dealing with specific, known application problems.

Some additional or late-breaking information that did not make it into the User's Guide may be available in the Release Note.

Typographical conventions

Example . . . . . . . . Used for:

lp or lp(C)

commands, device drivers, programs, and utilities; the letter in parentheses indicates the reference manual section in which the command, driver, program, or utility is documented

/new/client.list

files, directories, and desktops

root

system, network, or user names

filename

placeholders (replace with appropriate name or value)

<Esc>

keyboard keys

Exit program?

system output (prompts, messages)

yes or yes

user input

Cancel

button names

Edit

menu names

Copy

menu items

File > Find > Text

sequences of menus and menu items

$HOME

environment or shell variables

To help us implement your suggestions, include relevant details, such as book title, section name, page number, and system component. We would appreciate information on how to contact you in case we need additional explanation.

To contact us, use the card at the back of the SCO OpenServer Handbook or write to us at:

Technical Publications
Attn: CFT
The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
PO Box 1900
Santa Cruz, California 95061-9969
USA

or e-mail us at:

techpubs@sco.com or ... uunet!sco!techpubs

Thank you.