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Using the Base Documentation CD
About This CD
The Base Documentation CD allows you to access
standard release notes, online books, and man pages before you install
the system software. You view the documentation directly from the CD;
you do not use this CD to install documentation. (Documentation is
installed, by default, with software CDs. To find out about accessing installed
documentation see General
Documentation.)
Tip: This
CD is an ISO9660 standard CD, which means that it can be used in most
CD-ROM drives. This allows your IRIX-based system to mount the CD from
a variety of remote CD-ROM drives (as long as they are connected to
operating systems that support exporting ISO9660 filesystems).
How to Use This CD
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Login and insert the Base Documentation CD
into your
CD-ROM
drive.
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Open a shell:
From the Toolchest, choose Desktop >
Open Unix Shell.
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Go to the CDROM directory:
Use the cd command:
% cd /CDROM
Inside of the directory are the six
different CD scripts, which you can see listed with the ls command:
% ls
CDgrelnotes CDinsight CDrelnotes
CDinfosearch CDman CDsgihelp
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Use the CD scripts to access the
documentation on the CD. To run any of the scripts, in a UNIX shell,
enter ./ followed by
the script name.
For example:
% ./CDgrelnotes
What follows are descriptions of what each
of the scripts do:
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./CDgrelnotes - launches [g]relnotes,
which you can use to view Release Notes. You can specify the product
name in the command. For example, to view the release notes for
Netscape you would enter: ./CDgrelnotes netscape
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./CDman - displays man pages when used like the man
command. For example, to see the man page on inst,
enter ./CDman inst
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./CDinsight - launches the online book viewer, InSight. Displays
the online book library on the CD. Note: If you are
running IRIX 6.2 on your workstation, you must have version 3.0 of
InSight or higher in order for this to work.
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./CDsgihelp - displays instructions for making sgihelp
work with the content on the CD. (Involves setting a couple
X-resources in a local .Xdefaults file.)
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./CDinfosearch - displays instructions for making
Infosearch work with the content on the CD. (Involves editing some
configuration files.) InfoSearch is used for searching and viewing all
online books, release notes, and man pages. You must already
be running 6.5 for CDinfosearch to work with the content
of this CD.
If you are going through the Before You
Install checklist, return to Step 5.
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