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HP-UX is designed so that y ou can access many sources of information without leaving your system. Some of these information sources are a vailable through a shell command line.
Man Pages: The information on HP-UX whic h is found in HP-UX Reference is also on line and accessible b y clicking on the Toolbox button at the righ t of your Front Panel, or by entering on a command line man command , where command is the name of the HP-UX command y ou want to get information on. If you're not sure of the command name y ou can enter man -kkeyword , where keyword is a likely topic w ord to search on. This will result in a display listing commands ha ving the keyword in their description.
There are also a variety of les on y our HP-UX system whic h contain version-specic information whic h will be useful in administering and conguring cards and devices for y our version of HP-UX. Among these are the following:
Release Notes: This is the online v ersion of the Release Notes whic h came with your system. It con tains all the late information, undocumen ted changes and bug xes for y our release of HP-UX. Release Notes is found in the /etc/newconfig directory, and may be named by its release number, e.g., 90RelNotes , for HP-UX 9.0.
Terminfo: The directory /usr/lib/terminfo contains subdirectories containing information about terminal congurations, indexed b y the rst character of the terminal name. F or example, to nd conguration information about the hp98546, y ou can look in /usr/lib/terminfo/h for a listing of information les for all the terminal names beginning with \h".
These lenames also constitute all the acceptable argumen ts for setting the TERM variable, in case y ou are using a non-default terminal conguration.
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