1. INTRODUCTION

This article contains the answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) seen in
the Usenet newsgroup comp.sys.hp.hpux. Issues may also be discussed in
comp.sys.hp.apps, comp.sys.hp.misc, and comp.sys.hp.hardware. Discussion in
this document centers around Hewlett-Packard computer systems running  the
HP-UX operating system; the focus tends to be on the series 700  workstations,
although topics are also applicable to series 800 machines, and to a lesser
degree, series 300 and 400 machines. It will be posted about (!) twice
a month as the maintainer sees fit (and remembers ...   ;-)

This is Copyright 1996, 1997 by Alek Komarnitsky. It may be freely redistributed
in its entirety provided that this copyright notice is not removed.  It may
not be sold for profit or incorporated in commercial documents without the
written permission of the copyright holder.  Permission is expressly granted
for this document to be made available for file transfer from installations
offering unrestricted anonymous file transfer on the Internet. This article is
provided as is without any express or implied warranty. The content of this
article is the sole responsibility of the author and contributors, and does
not necessarily represent their employers or Hewlett-Packard.

Refer to question 3.1 for details on where to get this FAQ.

This FAQ is written in "minimal digest format". You can skip from one
section to the next by pressing ^G in many newsreaders, such as rn, trn
and strn (but not nn).

Internet resources are pointed to in this document by URL (Uniform
Resource Locator). A simplistic view of URL syntax:

method://server[:port]/pathname

Where "method" can commonly be any of [file|gopher|wais|news|ftp|http].
An example: a file is available via FTP at rtfm.mit.edu and
the pathname is pub/tmp/test. The URL is:

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/tmp/test

Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with
changes since the last issue are marked by a "!".

Submissions, corrections, comments, input, complaints should be directed to
Alek Komarnitsky <alek@csc.com>.