Configuring Your System
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Configuring with SRM Firmware
Introduction
Systems running the OpenVMS or Digital UNIX operating systems, use the SRM
firmware. You can use the SRM firmware to perform various configuration tasks, such as:
• Booting the system.
• Setting environment variables.
• Displaying the system configuration.
• Adding ISA bus devices.
Conventions
Table 3–1 shows the conventions used in SRM firmware.
Table 3–1: SRM Conventions
Item Convention
Console prompt >>>
Maximum command length 255 characters
Multiple contiguous spaces or tabs Treated as a single space
Command abbreviations Allowed, if not ambiguous
Command qualifiers or options Prefix with a space and a dash " -"
Numbers Hexadecimal, unless otherwise specified. (Note
that registers such as R0-R31 are shown in
decimal notation.)