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Introduction to This Guide

This guide describes how application developers can access the DCE Directory Service. From the application programmer's perspective, the directory service has three main parts: the DCE Cell Directory Service (CDS), the DCE Global Directory Service (GDS), and the X/Open Directory Service (XDS) and X/Open OSI-Abstract-Data Manipulation (XOM) programming interfaces. This is reflected in the organization of the book, as follows:

· Part 1. DCE Directory Service

· Part 2. CDS Application Programming

· Part 3. GDS Application Programming

· Part 4. XDS/XOM Supplementary Information

Parts 2 and 3 contain conceptual material on CDS and GDS with descriptions of programming tasks, including the use of programming interfaces. Topics in each of these parts ( XDS and the DCE Cell Namespace in Part 2 and Sample Application Programs in Part 3) contain annotated source code for sample applications.

Part 4 consists mostly of tables of values for the data structures used by the XDS and XOM application interfaces, which are the interfaces used to directly access the directory service. These topics supplement the reference pages for the XDS and XOM function calls, which are located in the OSF DCE Application Development Reference.

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Use of This Guide

Directory Service Tools