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 have installed 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 the Foundation and Applications CDs. To find out about accessing installed documentation see the General Documentation section of the Resources page.)

Note: 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

1. Login and insert the Base Documentation CD into the CD-ROM drive.
   
   
2. Open a shell:
   From the Toolchest, choose Desktop > Open Unix Shell.
   
   
3. 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
   
   

4. 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:

   • ./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
     
     
   • ./CDman - displays man pages when used like the man command. For example, to see the man page on inst, enter ./CDman inst
     
     
   • ./CDinsight - launches the online book viewer, InSight. Displays the online book library on the CD. Note: If you are running IRIX 6.2, you must have version 3.0 of InSight or higher in order for this to work.
     
     
   • ./CDsgihelp - displays instructions for making sgihelp work with the content on the CD. (Involves setting a couple X-resources in a local .Xdefaults file.)
     
     
   • ./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.