NW 6.5 SP8: Utilities Reference

Utilities Reference gives you essential information about Novell® NetWare® 6.5 utilities. For more information about any utility, see the online help for that utility. Unless otherwise specified, the commands in this guide apply to NetWare 6.5 SP4 or later.

For step-by-step instructions to accomplish specific tasks, or for information on NetWare concepts, follow the cross-reference links listed with the respective utilities.

Some new utilities have been included with OES. Some legacy NetWare utilities have been discontinued, while others have been combined with related utilities.

Before you can work effectively with OES utilities, you must have a basic understanding about the NDS® and Novell eDirectory™ infrastructures. For more information, see the Novell eDirectory 8.8 Administration Guide.

Audience

This guide is intended for anyone using the utilities included with NetWare.

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Documentation Updates

For the most recent version of Utilities Reference, see the online NetWare 6.5 SP8 Documentation Web site.

Documentation Conventions

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When a single pathname can be written with a backslash for some platforms or a forward slash for other platforms, the pathname is presented with a backslash. Users of platforms that require a forward slash, such as Linux* or UNIX^*, should use forward slashes as required by your software.

Also, in this Utilities Reference, certain command syntax conventions are used. The following MAP example illustrates several of these conventions, and the subsequent table lists and explains all the possible conventions.


MAP [P | NP] [option] drive:= [drive:|path]

HINT:Unless specifically noted otherwise in the documentation, text typed at command line prompts, in configuration files, etc., is not case sensitive and can be entered in either upper- or lowercase letters.

Convention	Explanation
Boldface characters	Boldface characters indicate items that you type at the prompt, such as commands.
Italicized characters	Italicized characters indicate variables that you replace with information pertinent to your task.
...	Ellipses indicate that parameters, options, or settings can be repeated.
[ ]	An item enclosed in square brackets is optional. You can enter the command with or without the item.
[[ ]]	Items enclosed by nested square brackets are optional. But if you use the items within the innermost brackets, you must also use the items within the outer brackets.
\|	When items are separated by a delimiter bar, you can use either item, but not both.
{ }	Braces indicate that you must choose at least one of the enclosed options.
< >	Angle brackets enclose a descriptive name for any value that is provided as output by a computer.

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