HP 3000 Manuals HP 3000 Manuals
About Your Documentation
The guide that you are reading now is the complete user's guide for your
Series 9X7LX system. This guide describes how to use the system. Three
chapters explain how to use the system by using the HP Easytime/iX menus.
The later chapters explain how to use the system by entering commands
directly.
Using Your System
This user's guide explains step-by-step procedures for all tasks, an
overview of basic skills needed to use the computer effectively, and a
glossary of terms and definitions. It focuses on two ways of using the
system. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 refer to using HP Easytime/iX. Chapters 5,
6, and 7 refer to using MPE/iX commands directly.
Introducing Your System Describes the two main ways of using your
system. It also explains how this manual
is organized.
Getting Started with HP Describes how to start HP Easytime/iX and
Easytime/iX the basic skills that you need to use the
menus effectively. If you are new to the
HP 3000, use this chapter first.
Performing Tasks Using HP Describes many of the tasks that you need
Easytime/iX to monitor and manage printing, files,
jobs, sessions, console messages, and
backups on your system.
HP Easytime/iX Reference Provides information about console
messages and requests, error messages,
function keys, wildcard character sets,
and field definitions for each HP
Easytime/iX screen.
Learning to Use MPE/iX Provides practice in using MPE/iX
Commands commands instead of the HP Easytime/iX
menus. It includes learning how to use
the editor, which allows you to create
text files.
Performing Tasks Using MPE/iX Gives procedures for the tasks that you
Commands can perform on the HP 3000 by using
MPE/iX commands.
MPE/iX Commands Reference Alphabetically lists descriptions of
commonly used MPE/iX commands. Use this
chapter to get more detail on commands
that you learn in chapters 5 and 6.
Getting More Information about Introduces some of Hewlett-Packard's HP
HP Support Services, HP 3000 support services, HP 3000
Educational Services, and educational services, and provides a
Documentation bibliography that lists documentation
intended to advance your skills and
understanding of the HP 3000.
Glossary Contains an alphabetical listing of terms
and definitions that are of special
interest to the HP 3000 Series 9X7LX
owner.
Index Contains the index for the user's guide,
Using Your System.
Other documentation for the system includes the Setting Up and
Maintaining Your System installation book plus supplement, the
Understanding Your System concept book, and a Customer Computer Support
Log. Your documentation set also includes online help systems and quick
reference cards. Other manuals for tape drives, printers, and terminals
are specific to those devices and ship with the device.
The online Help Facility
MPE/iX provides an extensive online Help Facility that includes a
description of every MPE/iX command, its parameters, and an example of
its use.
Setting Up and Maintaining Your System
Use this installation guide for setting up your computer and its
connecting pieces, and for starting the software. It includes
information on maintaining your built-in tape drive.
Understanding Your System
Sit back and read about the concepts that make the system run. Use this
to get familiar with your new computer or to deepen your knowledge of
computer concepts.
The quick reference cards
HP Easytime/iX Quick This card provides a brief reference for
Reference important skills and tasks.
MPE/iX Day-to-Day Tasks This quick reference for MPE/iX guides you in
finding the commands that you might use most
often.
Preparing Additional Software Products for Use
This short document is a supplement to the Setting Up and Maintaining
Your System installation guide. It provides instructions for completing
the installation process for HP software products that you purchased with
the system. Even when these products come installed on the system, they
may require steps to prepare them for use. Look in this supplement to
see which products include HP installation services and which you can
prepare for use.
Customer Computer Support Log
This record-keeping binder gives you and HP support personnel a place to
log information about your system. Keep this binder beside your system
so that it is always available.