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Model 744 Board Computer Overview Online Sources of Information Online Sources of Information HP-UX is designed so that you can access many sources of information without leaving your system. Most of these information sources are accessible through the shell command line on a character terminal. • Man pages: The HP-UX information found in HP-UX Reference is online and accessible by clicking on the Toolbox button at the right of your Front Panel, or by entering man command on a command line, where command is the name of the HP-UX command or routine you want to get information on. If you're not sure of the command name, you can enter man -k keyword, where keyword is a likely topic word to search on. This results in a display listing commands having the keyword in their description. Similar reference information on HP-RT, found in HP-RT Reference, can be displayed by entering rtman name on your HP-UX host system, where name is the name of the HP-RT command, system call, or function call you want to get information about. On your HP-UX system, there are also a variety of files which contain version-specific information. These will be useful in administering and configuring cards and devices for your version of HP-UX. Among these files are the following: • Release Notes: This is the online version of the Release Notes which come with your system. It contains all the latest information, undocumented changes, and bug fixes for your release of HP-UX. It also contains information on the current version of HP VUE. The Release Notes document resides in the /usr/share/doc directory, named by its release number; for example, 10.20RelNotes for HP-UX 10.20. • HP-UX and HP VUE Help. For graphics displays, extensive help information on the operating system and the visual interface is included with HP VUE. 1-15

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Model 744 Board Computer Overview
Online Sources of Information
Online Sources of Information
HP-UX is designed so that you can access many sources of information
without leaving your system. Most of these information sources are accessi-
ble through the shell command line on a character terminal.
•
Man pages: The HP-UX information found in
HP-UX Reference
is online
and accessible by clicking on the Toolbox button at the right of your Front
Panel, or by entering
man
command
on a command line, where
command
is the name of the HP-UX command or routine you want to get informa-
tion on. If you’re not sure of the command name, you can enter
man -k
keyword
, where
keyword
is a likely topic word to search on. This results
in a display listing commands having the keyword in their description.
Similar reference information on HP-RT, found in
HP-RT Reference
, can
be displayed by entering
rtman
name
on your HP-UX host system, where
name
is the name of the HP-RT command, system call, or function call
you want to get information about.
On your HP-UX system, there are also a variety of files which contain ver-
sion-specific information. These will be useful in administering and config-
uring cards and devices for your version of HP-UX. Among these files are
the following:
•
Release Notes: This is the online version of the Release Notes which
come with your system. It contains all the latest information, undocu-
mented changes, and bug fixes for your release of HP-UX. It also contains
information on the current version of HP VUE. The Release Notes docu-
ment resides in the
/usr/share/doc
directory, named by its release num-
ber; for example,
10.20RelNotes
for HP-UX 10.20.
•
HP-UX and HP VUE Help. For graphics displays, extensive help infor-
mation on the operating system and the visual interface is included with
HP VUE.