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About This Manual

This is the Perforce 97.2 User's Guide. It is meant to teach the use of Perforce's command-line interface; the GUI is not discussed.

Although this guide can be used as a reference manual, it is primarily intended as guide/tutorial on using Perforce. The full syntax of most Perforce commands is not provided here; we suggest that you supplement this guide with the on-line help. In particular, if you read in the manual about a command that you find useful, you can look it up online with p4 help commandname.

Use of this manual for operating systems other than UNIX and NT should be supplemented with the release notes for that OS.

New 97.2 Features

The release notes provide detailed information on the features available in Perforce 97.2.

The Example Set

We have attempted to develop a uniform example set for use with this manual. All of the 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. As far as we know, they never heard 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 particularly interested in hearing feedback on the completed chapters. Do they 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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