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IPW User's Guide

This guide assumes that the new IPW user is already familiar with UNIX as a user.

Data Files

IPW data files are simply UNIX files. There are two types of data files:

IPW commands

Each IPW command is a separate UNIX command. The syntax for using an IPW command follows UNIX conventions:

     command [ options ] [ operands ]
Like other UNIX commands, each IPW command has a manual page that describes what the command does, its options and operands. The manual pages for the IPW commands are organized in two different ways:


IPW documentation / Last revised 21 May 2009 / IPW web site