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Product Description
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.
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 infor-
mation 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 informa-
tion on the operating system and the visual interface is included with HP
VUE.
• Newconfig: The directory /usr/newconfig/etc contains information and
new versions of HP-UX product configuration files, as well as shell
scripts which may have been customized on your system. The contents of
this directory will vary depending on which products you have loaded
onto your system. In most cases, old versions of these files, in their regular
locations in the file system, are not overwritten by the update process.