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Rational ClearCase supports cross-platform VOB and view access with some restrictions. This chapter describes the tasks required to make VOBs and views on UNIX hosts accessible by Windows hosts, and to make VOBs on WIndows hosts accessible use by UNIX hosts using snapshot views. UNIX computers cannot access Windows VOBs using dynamic views and cannot access dynamic views on Windows computers. Only Windows computers that are set up to support dynamic views can access UNIX dynamic views.

These are the most significant tasks associated with enabling cross-platform VOB and view access:

• Creating a new region in the ClearCase registry. UNIX and Windows have different network file naming conventions, so each VOB or view must have two tags: one used by UNIX computers and another used by Windows computers.

NOTE: If you have not already done so, read about network regions in Chapter 26, Administering Regions.

• Creating an additional tag for each VOB or view that must be accessible to a computer that is not running the same operating system (Windows or UNIX) as the computer that hosts the VOB or view.

• Establishing conventions for the treatment of platform-specific text-file line-terminator conventions by views and VOBs.