Commands No Longer Supported

This section lists commands that are no longer supported as of HP-UX 10.0, and are not discussed elsewhere in this document.

Do not depend on this section in isolation; read it conjunction with the survey of changes in Chapter 4 “Major Changes for HP-UX 10.0 and 10.01” of this document, in particular the sections on "IO Convergence" and "Kernel Convergence." Also, refer to the "Compatibility with 9.x Releases" section of the Upgrading from HP-UX 9.x to 10.x manual.

For changes to libraries, refer to the README for NLS in 10.01 and to “Library Routines (libc)”, and “Math Library Routines (libm, libM)” later in this chapter.

bfs(1)
As of 10.0, this command has been obsoleted. Use the ed(1) command instead. As of the 8.0 release, it can handle up to 32M characters.
buildlang(1M)
Use localedef(1M) instead; localedef(1M) behaves similarly, but not identically, to buildlang. See “localedef(1M)” in this document and the manpage for details. localedef was formerly supported on the Series 700 only; as of 10.0, it was supported on the Series 800 as well. See also the "Routines and Macros No Longer Supported" section in the README for NLS in 10.01.
mkrs(1M)
mkrs, formerly supported on the Series 700, is not supported as of 10.0.
There is no replacement for this command as such; to protect yourself against the contingency of a catastrophic crash (such as a failure of the root disk), you should use the "Support Media", a tape, disk or kit which includes a utility (copyutil) that allows you to create a "failsafe" 9.x or 10.x disk recovery image.
- If you have an HP support contract, you should have the "Support Media", and the manual which tells you how to use it, the Support Media User's Manual (92453-90010).
  Contact your Support Representative if you do not have both the "Support Media" tape or disk, and the manual.
- If you do not have a support contract, you should be aware that you have no guaranteed way of recovering your 10.x system from a catastrophic failure.
monitor(1M)
monitor, which was an unsupported tool in pre-10.0 releases, was no longer available as of 10.0.
The HP Glance and HP Glance Plus products provide similar data, as do core HP-UX commands such as vmstat(1), iostat(1) and sar(1).
mkpdf(1M), pdfck(1M), pdfdiff(1M)
Product Description Files (PDFs), and the commands that operate on them, are no longer supported.
PDFs formed part of Distributed Update and Install, which was replaced at 10.0 by a new utility, Software Distributor (SD). Though there is no exactly equivalent replacement in SD for PDFs, SD does provide similar functionality. See “Software Distributor” of this document for more information.
revck(1M)
As of 10.0, this command has been obsoleted. Use the what(1) command instead. Hewlett-Packard has not been delivering ref_files since the 8.0 release.
rmchg(1)
This command was never intended to be called directly, and it is not supported. You should continue to use cdc(1) and rmdel(1).
uxgen(1M)
Use config or mk_kernel instead; see the entry for “config(1M)” earlier in this chapter and “Kernel Convergence” for more information.
The S800 kernel configuration file is no longer supported. As of 10.0, the kernel configuration file for all systems is /stand/system, which is similar to the 9.x Series 700 dfile.
HP recommends that you use mk_kernel(1M), or SAM (the menu-driven System Administration Manager) to rebuild the kernel on both Series 700 and 800 10.x systems.

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