On-line Documentation

There are many forms of on-line documentation available in the cluster, including most hardware and software manuals. Below is described several methods of accessing on-line documentation.

Manual Pages

Most Unix commands are available in the form of on-line manuals. These manuals can be viewed on any terminal, including graphical Xterminals and dial-in character terminals. The manual page includes a description, syntax, options and related information for the given command. To access the manual page for the command `cp', for example, type:

     man cp

at any Unix prompt. If you do not know the exact command, but have an idea about its function, say to compare two files, type:

     apropos compare

This will search all man pages for any commands that are related to comparing. Usually, several commands are listed, and then you can ask for the specific manual page as above.

Vendor software and hardware manuals/release notes/documentation

All Unix workstations have graphical document browsers installed which provide access to manuals, release notes and documentation for that vendor's software and hardware products installed in CPSnet.

For the DEC Alpha and MIPS computers, type:

     dxbook

For the SGI computers, type:

     insight

For the IBM computers, type:

     info

All these commands, except info, require a graphical Xterminal to run.