Perforce 2000.1 Command Line User's Guide (2000.1.ug.3)
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Preface
About This Manual
This is the Perforce 2000.1 User's Guide. It teaches the use of Perforce's command-line interface; other Perforce clients such as P4win (our Windows GUI) aren't discussed here. If you'd like documentation on other Perforce clients, please see our documentation pages, available from our web site at http://www.perforce.com.

Although you can use this guide as a reference manual, we intend it primarily as guide/tutorial on using Perforce. The full syntax of most of the Perforce commands is explicitly not provided here; in particular, only a subset of the available flags are mentioned. For a complete guide to Perforce, please see the Perforce Command Reference, or the on-line help system. If you will be using Perforce on any operating system other than UNIX, please consult the release notes for that OS.

Chapters 2 through 4 of this manual comprise our Getting Started guide. Newcomers to Perforce should start there, and move to subsequent chapters as needed.

Administering Perforce?


If you're administering a Perforce server, you'll need our Perforce System Administrator's Guide, which contains all the system administration material formerly found in this manual. If you're installing Perforce, the System Administrator's Guide is the place to start.

New 2000.1 Features


We've marked those features new to Perforce 2000.1 with changebars in the right margin. The release notes provide more detailed information, and are available from our web site.

The Example Set


We've attempted to develop a uniform example set for use with this manual. All of the examples use the source code for Elm, a popular UNIX mail program. We selected the Elm source code for a number of reasons:

Links to the Elm source code can be found at http://www.myxa.com/elm.html

We are using the Elm source with the kind permission of Sydney Weinstein and Bill Pemberton of the USENET Community Trust.

Disclaimer: To the best of our knowledge, the Elm team has never used Perforce for source management; in fact, they had no knowledge of Perforce until they received our email asking for permission to use their code in our manual. No implication that the Elm team uses or endorses Perforce is intended; none should be inferred.

Please Give Us Feedback


We are always interested in receiving feedback on our manuals. Does this guide teach the topic well? Are there any glaring errors? Are the explanations clear, or are the exemplifications obfuscated by this enchiridion? Please let us know what you think; we can be reached at [email protected].


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