Guardian User’s Guide—425266-001
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About This Guide
This guide provides introductory information and task-oriented instructions for using the
Compaq Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL) and various Guardian
environment utilities. The utilities and procedures described in this guide include many
of the more common operations tasks that users will need to perform on a system
running the Compaq NonStop™ Kernel operating system.
What’s in This Guide?
Section Describes...
Section 1, Introduction to Guardian
System Operations
The concept of performing operations tasks on a
NonStop™ Kernel system in the Guardian
environment, and provides a checklist of routine
tasks.
Part I. Using the Compaq Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL)
Section 2, Getting Started With TACL The TACL program as a command interpreter and
describes how to access the NonStop™ Kernel
system, including logging on and off and entering
TACL commands. It also introduces Safeguard, a
security program, and describes how to log on to a
terminal controlled by Safeguard and how to change
a password.
Section 3, Managing Files With
TACL
Using the TACL program to manage disk files.
Section 4, Starting and Controlling
Processes With TACL
Using the TACL program to manage processes that
you start.
Section 5, Defining Function Keys
and Writing Macros
How to define function keys and write simple TACL
macros.
Section 6, Creating and Using
DEFINEs
Using DEFINEs, which are sets of attributes and
values, to pass information to processes you start.
Part II. Managing Files Using the File Utility Program (FUP)
Section 7, Using FUP for Basic File
Management
FUP, and some of its basic features (renaming,
duplicating, and deleting files).
Section 8, Using FUP for Advanced
File Management
Using FUP to create and manage disk files.
Part III. Managing Disk and Tape Processes
Section 9, Performing Routine Disk
Operations
How to perform operations relating to disks, such as
checking the status of disks, and bringing up and
taking down disks.
Section 10, Using Labeled Tapes Using labeled and unlabeled tapes for systems that
have labeled-tape processing.
Section 11, Backing Up and Restoring
Disk Information
Using Backup and Restore to copy files between
disk and tape.
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