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Perforce 2001.1 User's Guide


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Preface
About This Manual
This is the Perforce 2001.1 User's Guide. It teaches the use of Perforce's command-line interface; other Perforce clients such as P4Win (the Perforce Windows client) are not 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 a 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 Perforce platform 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 the Perforce System Administrator's Guide, which contains all the system administration material formerly found in this manual. If you're installing Perforce, the Perforce System Administrator's Guide is also the place to start.

New 2001.1 Features

We've marked those features new to Perforce 2001.1 with changebars in the right margin. The release notes provide more detailed information, and are available from our web site.

Please Give Us Feedback

We are interested in receiving opinions on it from our users. In particular, we'd like to hear from users who have never used Perforce before. Does this guide teach the topic well? Please let us know what you think; we can be reached at [email protected].

Perforce 2001.1 User's Guide


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