Preface

This guide contains messages for all Oracle Procedural Gateway for APPC products. Use it with the Oracle9i Server Messages manual.

You must understand the fundamentals of the operating system for your platform and procedural gateways before using this guide when installing or administering the gateway.

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for anyone responsible for installing, configuring and administering the gateway, and also for developers writing applications that access remote host databases through APPC.

Related Publications

There are two parts to the documentation set: the documentation specific to the Oracle Procedural Gateway for APPC and the general gateway documentation. You automatically receive both for the Oracle products you have purchased. Use the general gateway documentation to learn about gateway concepts and the Oracle Procedural Gateway for APPC documentation to learn how to install, administer and use the gateway.

The Oracle Procedural Gateway for APPC Messages Guide Release 9.2.0.1.0 is included as part of your product shipment. Also included is:

• Oracle Procedural Gateway for APPC User's Guide

And, depending on the platform, one of the following:

• Oracle Procedural Gateway for APPC Installation and Configuration Guide for UNIX

• Oracle Procedural Gateway for APPC Installation and Configuration Guide for Windows

Refer to the Oracle Technical Publications Catalog and Price Guide for a complete list of documentation provided for Oracle products.

Conventions

Examples of input and output for the gateway and Oracle environment are shown in a special font:

$ mkdir /ORACLE/your_name 

All output is shown as it actually appears. In the following table, the left column presents the gateway's style conventions for input and the right column describes what those conventions mean:

Convention	Meaning
example text	Words or phrases, such as mkdir and ORACLE, must be entered exactly as spelled and in the letter case shown. In this example, mkdir will be entered in lowercase letters and ORACLE in uppercase.
italic text	Italicized uppercase or lowercase, such as your_name, indicates that you must substitute a word or phrase, such as the actual directory name.
BOLD text or bold italic TEXT	Bold words or phrases refer to a file directory structure, such as a directory, path or file ID.
{ }	Curly braces indicate that one of the enclosed arguments is required. Do not enter the braces themselves.
[ ]	Square brackets indicate that the enclosed arguments are optional. Do not enter the brackets themselves.
|	Vertical lines separate choices.
...	Ellipses indicate that the preceding item can be repeated. You can enter an arbitrary number of similar items.

Other punctuation, such as commas, quotes, or the pipe symbol (|), must be entered as shown unless otherwise specified. Directory names, file IDs, and so on, appear in the required letter case in examples. The same convention is used when these names appear in text, and the names are highlighted in bold. When portions of a file ID appear in italics, the use of italic characters indicates that those portions can vary.

Gateway commands, file IDs, reserved words, and keywords appear in uppercase in examples and text. UNIX commands, environment variables, and keywords appear in the required letter case in examples and text. Reserved words and keywords must always be entered as is, and have reserved meanings within the Oracle system.

Storage Measurements

Storage measurements use the following abbreviations:

• K, for kilobyte, which equals 1,024 bytes

• M, for megabyte, which equals 1,048,576 bytes

• G, for gigabyte, which equals 1,073,741,824 bytes

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