Help on this website

This page contains some information you might find useful if you get lost when using the OpenVMS online documentation website. We've tried to make the site as useful and as easy to use as possible, but we're sure there's stuff we haven't thought of. If you come across something that needs improvement, let us know by sending us a [Comment].

From this page you can get information about the following topics:

• Structure of this Website
• Navigating this Website

Structure of the Website

The OpenVMS online documentation website contains a subset of the OpenVMS documentation set. It is intended as a quick-reference site for users of Digital Equipment Corporation's OpenVMS operating system.

The site is a simple tree, beginning from the OpenVMS Documentation Page. This main page contains hotspots that link to all available documents.

When you open a document, you are at the top of the document's title page. Scroll down a few lines, and you will see a hotspotted Contents word in a larger font. click on Contents to go directly to the document's Table of Contents.

From the Table of Contents you can navigate within the document. You can go directly to any topic by clicking a hotspotted heading, or you can go to the hotspotted Index and navigate through the document by index entries.

Navigating the website

Within the website, you can navigate by clicking a hotspot or [button].

• A hotspot is a hypertext link to another location on the same page or to another page. Depending on your browser, a hotspot appears as a word in a different color or as an underlined word.

  This sentence has a hotspot that jumps you to the heading Navigating the website. To navigate within the site, click a highlighted phrase.

• A button is a shortcut to moving around the web site. Most pages include several [buttons] at the top and bottom of the page. The buttons are as follows:

  Button	Action
  Next or [Next]	Within an online document, click this button to move to the next sequential page.
  Previous or [Previous]	Within an online document, click this button to move to the previous sequential page.
  Contents or [Contents]	Within an online document, click this button to return to the document's Table of Contents.
  Begin or [Begin]	On the Table of Contents page, click this button to go to the first page of the document.
  [Home]	Click this button to go to the OpenVMS Documentation Page. This page contains the list of all available OpenVMS online documents.
  [Comments]	Click this button to go to a page that describes how to send comments to the documentation writers.
  [Ordering info]	Click this button go to a page that contains a list of all available OpenVMS documentation, and instruction on how to order books and CDROMs.
  [Help]	Click this button go to a page that describes this website (you're viewing the Help page now).

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 OpenVMS Documentation
 18 October 1996