• "Defining the Address Space"
  tells what the address space is and how it is created.
• " Interrogating the Memory System"
  summarizes the ways your program can get information about the address space.
• " Mapping Segments of Memory"
  documents the different ways that you can create new memory segments with predefined contents.
• " Locking Pages in Memory"
  discusses when and how to lock pages of virtual memory to avoid page faults.
• " Additional Memory Features"
  summarizes functions for address space management.

This chapter describes IPC and covers the following topics:

• "Types of Interprocess Communication Available"
  gives a brief overview of the types of IPC available.
• "IRIX IPC"
  explains IRIX shared arenas, locks, semaphores, and shared memory.
• "System V IPC"
  describes System V messages, semaphores, and shared memory.

• "Parallel Hardware and Programming Models"
  provides a quick survey of the programming models and their relationship to the hardware.
• "Using Statement-Level Parallelism"
  discusses using fine-grained parallel execution in Fortran and C.
• "Using Process-Level Parallelism"
  provides an overview of the use of coordinated UNIX processes for parallel execution.
• "Using MPI and PVM"
  compares these two interfaces.

The chapter includes these topics

• "Overview of File and Record Locking"
  presents an introduction to locking mechanisms.
• "Terminology"
  defines some common terms about locking.
• "Using Record Locking"
  covers using access permissions, locking files, and getting lock information.
• "Selecting Advisory or Mandatory Locking"
  describes mandatory locking and record locking across systems.

This chapter contains these sections:

• "Font Basics"
  defines fonts and provides some general background information.
• "Using Fonts With the X Window System"
  discusses some of the most useful font utilities of the X Window System�.
• "Installing and Adding Font and Font Metric Files"
  explains how to install and add font files and font metric files for system-wide use.
• "Downloading a Type 1 Font to a PostScript Printer"
  explains how to download a Type 1 font to a PostScript printer.

This chapter describes how to create such an application. It contains the following major sections:

• "Overview"
  presents an introduction to internationalization and defines some common terms.
• "Additional Reading on Internationalization"
  explains how to set the current locale and limitations of the locale system.
• "Character Sets, Codesets, and Encodings"
  describes various ways of encoding characters,
• "Cultural Items"
  discusses the ways in which different cultures affect the way a string can be viewed, for example in outputting or collating.
• "Locale-Specific Behavior"
  covers native language support (NLS) and the NLS database, regular expressions, and cultural data.
• "Strings and Message Catalogs"
  describes how to create and use catalogs of messages to send diagnostic information to users in various locales.
• "Internationalization Support in X11R6"
  describes internationalization support provided by X11, Release 6 (including features from X11R5).
• "Internationalization Support in Motif"
  points to information describing how to internationalize a Motif application.
• "User Input"
  discusses the translation of keyboard events into programmatic character strings for a variety of keyboards.
• "GUI Concerns"
  discusses internationalizing applications that use graphical user interfaces (GUIs)
• "Popular Encodings"
  presents some common non-ASCII encodings.

For a list of ISO 3166 country names and abbreviations, see Appendix A, "ISO 3166 Country Names and Abbreviations." You can find detailed information about fonts in Chapter 5, "Working With Fonts." Also, you can find additional information about internationalizing an application in the Indigo Magic Desktop Integration Guide.