This guide describes how to install DEC C on Alpha processors running the OpenVMS operating system.
Keep this guide with your distribution kit. You will need it to install maintenance updates or to reinstall DEC C for any other reason.
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The audience for this guide is the system manager who installs DEC C software.
This guide contains the following chapters and appendix:
In addition to this guide, the DEC C for OpenVMS Alpha documentation set includes the following books:
The Read Before Installing DEC C Version 5.n for OpenVMS Alpha Systems letter is provided along with this installation guide on the CD media.
For information on OpenVMS system management, see the following documents in the OpenVMS documentation set:
For help understanding OpenVMS system error messages, see the OpenVMS System Messages and Recovery Procedures Reference Manual or the online HELP/MESSAGE facility.
Table 1 lists the conventions used in this guide.
| Convention | Meaning |
|---|---|
| VMS systems | Refers to OpenVMS Alpha systems and OpenVMS VAX systems unless otherwise specified. |
| UPPERCASE TEXT | Uppercase text indicates a command, the name of a routine, the name of a file, the name of a file protection code, or the abbreviations for a system privilege. |
| $ @SYS$UPDATE:VMSINSTAL fprintf function auto storage class | Monospaced type identifies displayed or typed text, language keywords, and the names of OpenVMS and DEC C Run-Time Library routines. |
| boldface monospace text | Boldface monospace text represents user input in interactive examples. |
| $ | The dollar sign is used to indicate the DCL prompt. This prompt may be different on your system. |
| [Ctrl/x] | In procedures, a sequence such as [Ctrl/x] indicates that you must hold down the key labeled Ctrl while you press another key or a pointing device button. |
| [Return] | In procedures, a key name is shown enclosed to indicate that you press a key on a keyboard. |
| . . . | A vertical ellipsis in an example indicates that information not directly related to the example has been omitted. |
| file-spec, . . . | A horizontal ellipsis indicates that you can enter additional parameters, values, or information. |
| [logical-name] | Square brackets indicates that the enclosed item is optional. (Square brackets are not, however, optional in the syntax of a directory name in a file specification or in the syntax of a substring specification in an assignment statement.) |