O￿ce systems:

-TDP (text editor and formatting application)

-HPSLATE

-HPDESKMANAGER (electronic mail application)

-HPWORD

-Editor (text editor application)

Development aids:

-System Dictionary/XL

-Transact/V

-Inform/V

-Report/V

Data Managemen t:

-ALLBASE/SQL

-TurboIMAGE/XL

-Query/V (subsystem for v erifying and modifying data)

-Keyed Sequential Access Managemen t (KSAM)

-MPE/iX File System

-SORT-MERGE/XL (utility for ordering records in a ￿le and merging records in sorted ￿les. It can sort an y character sequence using an y data type.)

MPE/iX also pro vides special purpose utilities for system administration tasks.

For example, the MPE/iX T ape Labeling Facility allows you to place labels on magnetic tapes for iden ti￿cation and protection.

MPE/iX provides utilities to facilitate migration of applications and databases to the 900 Series systems.

Terminal Keyboard Layouts

Hewlett-Packard terminals contain keys for the entire ASCII character set. These c haracters can be displayed on the CRT screen and printed on a printer. HP terminals ha ve three modes of operation:

Local (not connected to the HP 3000 system)

Remote character mode

Remote block mode

Non-printable keys include the SHIFT, BA CKSPACE, RETURN, and TAB keys. The 4ESC5 (escape) and 4CTRL5 (control) keys generate special codes for terminal operation. The most frequently used codes are the following k ey combinations (not case sensitive):

4

CTRL

5-4

Y

5

stop subsystem activity

4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CTRL

5-4S

5

suspend output

4

 

5-4

 

 

 

5

resume output

CTRL

Q

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