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Supplementary Documentation

This chapter describes some of the supplementary documentation that is provided on the Tru64 UNIXOperating System CD–ROM, Associated Products CD–ROMs Volumes 1 and 2, and Compaq’s Web site. The Printed and Online Documentation sections of the previous chapters describe the supplementary documentation provided on the Documentation CD–ROM.

Supplementary documentation is provided only on line and comes from various sources. Some of this material, including all of the Best Practice documentation, is produced by Compaq writers working closely with Tru64 UNIX developers. Other documentation is produced by UNIX professionals both within Compaq and outside the corporation. Supplementary documentation tends to be less formal in structure than the core documentation.

Examples of supplementary documentation include installation guides and release notes for components such as the Multimedia Services for Tru64 UNIX run-time environment and DECevent, QuickSpecs, nd lists of fixes made to earlier versions of the operating system.

This Documentation Overview does not list all of the supplementary documentation included on the CD–ROMs and the Web, but it does provide some guidance in the following sections.

5.1 Web-Based Best Practices Documentation

A Best Practices document offers a recommended procedure for performing a task, rather than presenting all of the options available. This type of documentation walks you step-by-step through the process.

The recommended procedure might depend on your configuration environment. For example, the Best Practice for performing a particular task on a Web server might differ from the one for performing the same task on a file server. The Best Practice documentation cannot meet the needs of all users, but it is aimed at the most common tasks and system configurations in order to meet the demands of most users.

The Best Practices documentation resides only on the Web at the following site:

http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/docs/best_practices/

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Compaq AA-RH8RD-TE manual Supplementary Documentation, Web-Based Best Practices Documentation