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Installing the TP Desktop Connector Client
Services on Non-Windows Systems
The TP Desktop Connector client services software was previously released
as the ACMS Desktop ‘‘portable API’’ services. It allows client applications
running on a variety of desktop platforms to call ACMS tasks. For the current
TP Desktop Connector release, the client services software is distributed on
the TPware Product Suite CD in folders (directories) according to the desktop
platform (see Chapter 4).
Section 7.1 presents a general overview of the installation process and its
prerequisites.
For information on how to design and develop client applications using the TP
Desktop Connector client services software, refer to the following ACMS books:
• Compaq TP Desktop Connector for ACMS Client Application
Programming Guide
• Compaq TP Desktop Connector for ACMS Client Services Reference
Manual
7.1 Overview of the Client Services Installation
The TPware Product Suite CD is in ISO 9660 standard format. The
instructions in this chapter assume that you can not mount this CD directly on
your desktop system. Because you can not, you will have to use
ftp or some
other network file transport to get the files from a Windows system that has
the TPware Product Suite CD mounted.
If you install from the Software Products Library CD, the instructions assume
that you copy the needed files from the OpenVMS system and expanded them.
The procedure for installing the client services and accompanying sample client
application files consists of the following general steps:
1. Transfer a client services archive to your desktop platform
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