Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Release Notes or Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Release Notes

The printed Solaris 8 Release Notes, provided with the product, contain all installation issues known at the time of release.  

For runtime issues, see the Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Online Release Notes or Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Online Release Notes. Also, for any updates, see the Solaris 8 Online Release Notes on http://docs.sun.com.

Solaris 8 Start Here

This booklet outlines how to use Solaris Web Start to install the Solaris operating environment and related software on both the SPARC and IA platforms. 

KCMS Application Developer's Guide

This book describes the Kodak Color Management System (KCMS) framework application programming interface (API). The KCMS framework enables the accurate reproduction, and improves the appearance of, digital color images on desktop computers and associated peripherals. With this API you can write applications that perform correct color conversions and manipulations. 

KCMS CMM Developer's Guide

This book describes how to create a KCMS color management module (CMM). It provides information on how to use the KCMS foundation library, which is a graphics porting interface (GPI) implemented in C++. These interfaces link the device-independent layer of the KCMS library with the color module and enable the flow of data from the application to the color module. Read this document if you are a driver developer who is writing a color module for color management technology. 

KCMS CMM Reference Manual

This book describes each C++ class in the KCMS foundation library. This library is a graphics porting interface implemented in C++ for creating KCMS color modules. Read this document if you are a driver developer who is writing a color module for color management technology. 

KCMS Calibrator Tool Loadable Interface Guide

This book describes how to create a dynamically loadable device handler module that provides the KCMS Calibrator Tool with color correction data to update ICC format files. The document presents an overview of the interaction between the dynamically loadable module and the KCMS Calibrator Tool.  

KCMS Test Suite User's Guide

This book describes a suite of test scripts and the testing facility the CMM developer can use to ensure that a CMM is KCMS-framework compliant. The document is also a reference for anyone interested in the development and use of the KCMS framework. 

OpenBoot 2.x Command Reference Manual

This book describes the OpenBoot 2.x firmware that is part of the boot PROM in Sun systems. The features of the OpenBoot firmware allow it to be used by end users as well as by system administrators and developers. This document is for those who want to use the OpenBoot 2.x firmware to configure and debug their systems. 

OpenBoot 2.x Quick Reference

This quick-reference card is a companion document to the OpenBoot 2.x Command Reference Manual. The card has a convenient fold-out format, and provides useful tables from the Command Reference Manual.

OpenBoot 3.x Command Reference Manual

This book describes how to use Sun systems that implement firmware that responds as described by IEEE Standard 1275-1994. This document is written for all users, from systems designers to systems administrators and end users, who want to use OpenBoot to configure and debug their systems. 

OpenBoot 3.x Quick Reference

This quick-reference card is a companion document to the OpenBoot 3.x Command Reference Manual. The card is a brief summary of the OpenBoot 3.x commands that can be used to administer and develop for hardware that includes OpenBoot firmware.

Writing FCode 3.x Programs

This book describes how to write, debug, and test FCode programs for SPARC-based systems and PCI or SBus interface card devices. This document is written for designers who have some familiarity with PCI or SBus card design requirements and Forth Programming.  

Common Desktop Environment: Application Builder User's Guide

This book introduces the Application Builder and shows you how to use it. The Application Builder is an interactive tool for developing applications. It provides features that facilitate both the construction of an application's graphical user interface and the incorporation of CDE's desktop services, including the Help System, ToolTalk^TM messaging, drag and drop, and the Session Manager.

Common Desktop Environment: Desktop KornShell User's Guide

This book explains how to use the Desktop KornShell to create Motif applications. It introduces basic dtksh skills and provides several sample scripts. The samples are presented in order of increasing complexity, so you can gradually build your understanding of how dtksh works. The guide also includes a list of the commands supported by dtksh and their syntaxes.

Common Desktop Environment: Help System Author's and Programmer's Guide

This book describes how to develop online help for Common Desktop Environment application software. It explains how to create help topics and how authors and developers collaborate to integrate online help into a Motif application. For authors, this document is a step-by-step guide to creating and testing online help that can contain multiple text styles, graphics, and hyperlinks. For application developers, this document describes the Help System application programming interface that allows the application to invoke help topics. It explains the help dialog widgets, how to respond to help requests, and how to navigate hyperlink data.  

Common Desktop Environment: Internationalization Programmer's Guide

This book provides information for internationalizing an application so that it can support various languages and cultural conventions in a consistent user interface. This document contains guidelines and hints for developers on how to write applications for worldwide distribution, an overall view of internationalization topics that span different layers within the desktop, and pointers to reference and more detailed documentation.  

Common Desktop Environment: Product Glossary

This book provides a comprehensive list of terms used in the Common Desktop Environment and is a resource and reference base for all users of CDE. Glossary definitions can include information about the audience, where the term originated, the CDE component that uses the term in its graphical user interface, and a preferred term where appropriate. 

Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview

This book provides a high-level view of the Common Desktop Environment development environment and the developer documentation set. It also contains an architectural overview of the entire CDE desktop. 

Common Desktop Environment: Style Guide and Certification Checklist

This book provides application design style guidelines and the list of requirements for Common Desktop Environment application-level certification. This document provides information to assist the application designer in developing consistent applications and behaviors within the applications. By default, this checklist assumes that your application is being designed for a left-to-right language environment in an English-language locale. These style requirements consist of the Motif 2.1 requirements with Solaris Common Desktop Environment-specific additions. Though Solaris 8 software predates the Open Group's CDE 2.1 standard, you might also want to consult the Style Guide Set published by the Open Group for additional style considerations. 

Common Desktop Environment: ToolTalk Messaging Overview

This book describes the ToolTalk components, commands, and error messages offered as routines to enable your application to conform to the Media Exchange and Desktop Services message set conventions. This document is for developers who create or maintain applications that use the ToolTalk service to interoperate with other applications in the Common Desktop Environment.  

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Motif Transition Guide

This book addresses issues of concern to Sun Motif developers: how to run existing OPEN LOOK and Motif applications on the OpenWindows^TM and Solaris Common Desktop Environment desktops; and porting OPEN LOOK and Motif applications to the Solaris CDE environment. This document assumes familiarity with OPEN LOOK or Motif programming.

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Guide

This book describes the Solaris Common Desktop Environment. Use this guide if you are a programmer integrating an existing application into Solaris CDE, or developing a new application that uses the features and functionality of Solaris CDE. Some sections of this guide assume familiarity with Motif, X, UNIX®, or C programming. It is intended for use alongside the Common Desktop Environment: Programmer's Overview, and the Motif Programmer's Reference Set published by The Open Group.

Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Device Configuration Guide

This book contains guidelines and Device Reference Pages to use when configuring IA devices to run with Solaris Intel Platform Edition.

Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Hardware Compatibility List

This book provides information about IA hardware requirements and supported system platforms and devices for Solaris Intel Platform Edition. The contents are presented in tables, by manufacturer and model, and the document is designed to be scanned quickly. This book also contains information about how to obtain drivers and supplemental driver documentation developed between Solaris Intel Platform Edition product releases.

Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Installation Guide and Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Installation Guide

These books describe how to use Solaris Web Start to install the Solaris operating environment and related software. 

Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide

This book describes how to install the Solaris operating environment on both networked and non-networked, SPARC and IA platforms. It describes how to use the Solaris Interactive Installation Program and the Solaris JumpStart^TM technology to set up, automate, customize, and automatically install Solaris on any number of systems, primarily in enterprise network environments.

What's New in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment

This book contains high-level feature descriptions of new functionality in the Solaris 8 operating environment. 

man pages section 1: User Commands

This section describes the commands and utilities available with this operating system, including commands found only in the SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package; commands for communicating with other systems; commands associated with the Form and Menu Language Interpreter (FMLI); and commands specific to the SunOS system. 

The available options, arguments, and operands for each command are provided in accordance with standard rules of command syntax, along with availability attributes, diagnostic information, and cross-references to other document pages and reference material with relevant information. 

This section is for all UNIX system users. 

man pages section 1M: System Administration Commands

This section describes the Solaris system administration and maintenance utilities and is for system and network administrators. 

man pages section 2: System Calls

This section describes the system calls. A system call is a C library function that requests kernel services. Readers of this section should be familiar with C programming language constructs. 

man pages section 3: Library Interfaces and Headers

This section describes the interface libraries that are implemented as shared objects and the headers that are used by the functions that make up these libraries. Headers contain function prototypes, definitions of symbolic constants, common structures, preprocessor macros, and defined types. Readers of this section should be familiar with C programming language constructs. 

man pages section 3: Basic Library Functions

This document describes the core library functions found in the standard C library (libc), the dynamic linking library (libdl), the SunOS/BSD compatibility library (libucb), and the various memory allocation libraries. Readers of this section should be familiar with C programming language constructs.

man pages section 3: Networking Library Functions

This section describes the functions in the various networking libraries, including the Kerberos library (libkrb), the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) library (libldap), the network service library (libnsl), the remote asynchronous calls library (librac), the resolver library (libresolv), the remote procedure call libraries (librpcsvc and librpcsoc), the sockets library (libsocket), the X/Open® Federated Naming (XFN) library (libxfn), and the X/Open network service library (libxnet). Readers of this section should be familiar with C programming language constructs.

man pages section 3: Threads and Realtime Library Functions

This section describes the functions in the threads libraries (libthread and libthread), the realtime library (librt), and other related libraries. Readers of this section should be familiar with C programming language constructs.

man pages section 3: Extended Library Functions

This section describes the functions in the various specialized libraries, including device ID (libdevid) and device information (libdevinfo) libraries, executable and linking format (ELF) library (libelf), kernel statistics (libkstat) and kernel VM (libkvm) libraries, and the mathematical library (libm). Readers of this section should be familiar with C programming language constructs.

man pages section 3: Curses Library Functions

This section describes the functions in the libraries that provide graphics and character screen updating capabilities, including the curses library (libcurses), the forms library (libform), the menus library (libmenu), the panels library (libpanel), and the graphics interface library (libplot). Readers of this section should be familiar with C programming language constructs.

man pages section 4: File Formats

This section outlines the formats of various files that include the C structure declarations, where applicable. The headers containing these structure declarations are generally found in the directories /usr/include or /usr/include/sys.

In the pages that outline the various library structures, both public and private interfaces are listed. A public interface provides a stable, committed set of symbols for application development; private interfaces are for internal use only and can change at any time.  

This section is for software engineers. 

man pages section 5: Standards, Environments, and Macros

This section describes miscellaneous subjects, including headers, environments, macro packages, character sets, and standards. These descriptions provide further elaboration on Solaris constructs described elsewhere in this section. 

man pages section 6: Demos

This section describes audio and video games and demos provided by Solaris software. 

man pages section 7: Device and Network Interfaces

This section describes the various device and network interfaces available on the system. It includes descriptions of character and block devices, STREAMS modules, network protocols, file systems, and ioctl()requests for driver subsystems and classes.

This section is for software engineers who write, maintain, or modify device drivers. 

man pages section 9: DDI and DKI Overview

This section describes the reference information required to write device drivers, which control data transferred to and received from peripheral devices, and are developed independently from the kernel. 

This section is for software engineers who write, modify or maintain device drivers. Readers should be familiar with the C programming language as well as system internals. 

man pages section 9E: DDI and DKI Driver Entry Points

This section describes entry-point routines a developer can use to provide calling and return syntax from the kernel to the device driver. 

This section is for software engineers who write, modify, or maintain device drivers. Readers should be familiar with the C programming language as well as system internals. 

man pages section 9F: DDI and DKI Kernel Functions

This section describes functions a developer can use to provide calling and return syntax from a device driver to the kernel. 

This section is for software engineers who write, modify, or maintain device drivers. Readers should be familiar with the C programming language as well as system internals. 

man pages section 9S: DDI and DKI Data Structures

This section describes the data structures used by drivers to share information between the kernel and device drivers. 

This section is for software engineers who write, modify, or maintain device drivers. Readers should be familiar with the C programming language as well as system internals. 

Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Online Release Notes or Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Online Release Notes

These books contain installation and runtime issues, CERT Advisories, late-breaking new features, end-of-software-support statements, documentation issues, driver update information, and a list of integrated patches. They are on the Solaris 8 Documentation CD and any update is available on http://docs.sun.com. Also see the printed Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Release Notes or Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Release Notes.

Application Packaging Developer's Guide

This book provides step-by-step instructions and relevant background information for designing, building, and verifying packages. This document also includes information on, and examples of, advanced techniques that you might find helpful during the package creation process. 

Federated Naming Service Programming Guide

This book provides support for flexible composition of different, autonomous naming systems into a single service, accessible using a single, simple naming system interface. 

International Language Environments Guide

This book describes new internationalization features in the Solaris 8 operating environment. It contains important information on how to use Solaris 8 software to build software products that support various languages and cultural conventions. It contains guidelines and hints for developers on how to use Solaris 8 software to write applications for international markets, and includes pointers to more detailed documentation. 

JDK 1.1 for Solaris Developer's Guide

This book gives Java developers information about using Java on the Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 operating environment. It includes overviews and descriptions of the important components and their benefits for developers, and describes how to use Java on Solaris to get the best performance for your applications. In addition, this document covers compatibility and style issues. 

Java 2 SDK for Solaris Developer's Guide

This book gives Java developers information about using Java in the Solaris 8 operating environment. It includes overviews and descriptions of the new components of Java on Solaris and their benefits for developers. This document also includes compatibility and style issues. 

Linker and Libraries Guide

This book describes the operations of the Solaris link editor and runtime linker, and the objects on which they operate. The main areas this guide includes are: the Link-Editor: ld(1), the Runtime Linker: ld.so.1(1), Shared Objects (sometimes referred to as Shared Libraries), and the ELF object file format.

Multithreaded Programming Guide

This book includes the POSIX and Solaris threads APIs, programming with synchronization objects, compiling multithreaded programs, and finding analysis tools for multithreaded programs. 

This guide is for developers who want to use multithreading to separate a process into many independent execution threads to improve application performance and structure.  

Network Interface Guide

This book presents the most basic interfaces that allow an application developer to construct networking applications: Internet domain sockets, XTI and TLI, transport selection, and mappings between names and addresses. It also provides information on other fundamental networking technology. The ONC+ Developer's Guide explains higher level networking interfaces.

ONC+ Developer's Guide

This book describes the programming interfaces to remote procedure call (RPC) and to NIS+ (a network name service), which belong to the ONC+^TM distributed services developed at Sun Microsystems.

The guide describes converting an existing single-computer application to a networked, distributed application, as well as developing and implementing distributed applications. 

Solaris Modular Debugger Guide

This book describes the Solaris Modular Debugger (MDB), which is a new general purpose debugging tool for the Solaris operating environment. The primary feature of MDB is its extensibility. This book describes how to use MDB to debug complex software systems, with a particular emphasis on the facilities available for debugging the Solaris kernel and associated device drivers and modules. The book also includes a complete reference for and discussion of the MDB language syntax, debugger features, and MDB Module Programming API. 

Solaris 64-bit Developer's Guide

This book is written primarily for the application developer and provides guidance on choosing whether to use the 32-bit or 64-bit Solaris application programming environment. It explains the similarities and differences between the 32-bit and 64-bit application environments and explains how to write code that is portable between the two environments. This book also describes some of the tools provided by the operating system for developing 64-bit applications.  

Solaris X Window System Developer's Guide

This book provides detailed information for software developers interested in interfacing with the Solaris X server. Read this document for detailed information about features of the Solaris X server, the DPS imaging system, supported display devices, authorization schemes and protocols for server connections, and differences from and enhancements to the X Consortium sample server. 

Source Compatibility Guide

This book describes installation, use, and the components of the SunOS/BSD Source Compatibility Package. The optional SunOS/BSD Source Compatibility Package provides many SunOS 4.0 operating system and compatible versions and BSD interfaces not otherwise available in the SunOS 5.0 operating system and other compatible versions, and other interfaces that might differ in functionality between the SunOS 4.0 operating system and compatible versions, and the SunOS 5.0 operating system and compatible versions.

SPARC Assembly Language Reference Manual

This book describes the assembler that runs on the SPARC architecture and translates source files that are in assembly language format into object files in linking format. The text in this book is current to Solaris 7 software. 

STREAMS Programming Guide

This book provides a full introduction to the STREAMS facility for UNIX system communications services in the Solaris environment. It includes STREAMS mechanisms, modules, drivers, pipes, polling, signalling, and multiplexing, and includes examples.  

System Interface Guide

This book is the most general of a set that describes the major elements of the Application Programming Interface. This guide introduces the Application Programming Interface concept and describes the process control, scheduling control, file input/output, System V interprocess communication, memory management, and real time interfaces. 

Other documents in the set are the STREAMS Programming Guide, the Multithreaded Programming Guide, and the Network Interface Guide.

ToolTalk User's Guide

This book describes the ToolTalk service and how to modify applications to send and receive ToolTalk messages. This document is for developers who create or maintain applications that use the ToolTalk service to interoperate with other applications; it is also useful for system administrators who set up workstations. This guide assumes familiarity with Solaris operating environment commands, system administrator commands, and system terminology.  

WebNFS Developer's Guide

This book includes information about the following topics:

• NFS^TM classes for the Extended File system (XFile) API, the first implementation of remote file system access for Java applications that provides 100% Pure Java^TMcompatibility.

• Extended File system (XFile) API classes that provide a common interface for multiple file system types and allow for dynamic loading of file system implementations. The API also provides a means to access file and file system-specific information.

• WebNFS Client SDK for Java^TM, including Java class libraries that provide a way to access files using the same UI for local and remote file access.

• The XFileChooser JavaBeans^TM component, which provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) component for selecting files based on the XFile API.

Writing Device Drivers

This book provides information on developing device drivers for character-oriented devices, block-oriented devices, and SCSI HBA devices for the Solaris operating environment. This book discusses how to develop multithreaded reentrant device drivers for all architectures that conform to the Solaris DDI/DKI. A common driver programming approach is described that enables drivers to be written without concern for platform-specific issues such as endianness and data ordering. Additional topics include porting Solaris drivers to a 64-bit environment, cluster-aware drivers, and hardened drivers. 

IA-32 Assembly Language Reference Manual

This book describes the assembler that generates code for the Intel 32-bit processor architecture (IA-32) and translates source files that are in assembly language format into object files in linking format. The text in this book is current to Solaris 7 software. 

About Solaris 8 Documentation

This book lists the documentation needed to install and use Solaris 8 software. It also provides a tabular organization of the documents by task and brief descriptions of these documents. 

Binary Compatibility Guide

This book is intended for application writers who want to ensure that their SunOS 4.0 operating system applications, and compatible versions of them, will execute easily on the Solaris 8 release. It describes the binary compatibility package, what it does and does not handle, and how to install and use it. It also discusses specific areas to consider in developing an application or in evaluating how easily an existing application on one of these SunOS versions will execute on this release. Most important, this guide describes areas where binary compatibility is not available. The Binary Compatibility Package on Solaris 2.0 operating environment and compatible versions emulates SunOS versions. This allows executables compiled and linked on these SunOS versions to execute on he Solaris 8 operating environment. 

Font Administrator User's Guide

This book provides detailed instructions for managing fonts in the OpenWindows environment.  

NIS+ Transition Guide

This book describes how to convert a site running the NIS name service to a site running the NIS+ name service. It provides an introduction and overview of the transition process, information about designing a new NIS+ name space, planning security measures, and running NIS+ in NIS-compatibility mode. It includes the prerequisites and steps required to implement a NIS-to-NIS+ transition. 

Service Location Protocol Administration Guide

This book provides a conceptual description of the Service Location Protocol (SLP) V2 framework as it is implemented in the Solaris 8 software. The document also provides a checklist of considerations for planning and administering the SLP agents. It also includes procedures for logically or geographically extending the network, for activating the SLP-specific security feature, and for setting other SLP agent property configurations to optimize agent performance on the network. 

Solaris Common Messages and Troubleshooting Guide

This book lists causes, solutions, background information, and references for more than 250 common Solaris error messages.  

Solaris Java Plug-in User's Guide

This book describes Java Plug-in 1.2 for the Solaris operating environment, an add-on product for Netscape Navigator^TM, which enables Java applets and JavaBeans components to run on Web pages using Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.2 instead of the default Java Virtual Machine (JVM) bundled with Navigator.

Solaris Naming Administration Guide

This book describes how to customize and administer existing NIS+, NIS, FNS, and DNS name spaces. It provides overview descriptions of these four name services, conceptual information describing how they work, and step-by-step descriptions and explanations of how to perform common name space administration tasks. This guide also includes common name space error messages and a troubleshooting appendix.  

Solaris Naming Setup and Configuration Guide

This book describes how to set up and configure NIS+, NIS, FNS, and DNS name services in a Solaris environment. It provides network planning instructions and step-by-step set up and configuration instructions for each of the four naming services. It also describes the name service switch file (nsswitch.conf) and how to use it to coordinate the use of multiple naming services in a single environment.

Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide

This book tells security administrators how to set up Solaris smart cards and card readers so that they can be used to authenticate users attempting to log in to the desktop or other application. It also tells owners how to use their smart cards. 

Solaris Transition Guide

This book focuses on the differences between the SunOS release 4 and SunOs release 5.7 operating systems for anyone already familiar with the SunOS release 4 operating system. This book also describes other aspects of the Solaris 7 operating environment that can help end users, developers, and system administrators through the transition.  

Solaris Transition Guide Update

This book is designed to be used with Solaris Transition Guide to help users, system administrators, and developers transition from SunOS release 4 to SunOS release 5. Information on differences between the Solaris 1 and Solaris 7 operating environments is documented in the Solaris Transition Guide. This update focuses on those changes specific to SunOS release 5.8 delivered with the Solaris 8 software.

Solaris WBEM Services Administrator's Guide

This book explains Common Information Model (CIM) concepts and describes how to administer Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) services in the Solaris operating environment. 

Solstice Enterprise Agents 1.0 User Guide

This book covers Solstice Enterprise Agents^TM, an extensible agent technology that uses the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to manage different components and applications separately within a device. It describes how to install and configure Solstice Enterprise Agents components, how to invoke Master Agents and subagents, and how to use the Desktop Management Interface (DMI).

SunSHIELD Basic Security Module Guide

This document is intended for the system administrator whose duties include setting up and maintaining the SunSHIELD^TM Basic Security Module (BSM). The product provides the security features defined as C2 in the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC). The document includes installation instructions, explains how to administer auditing using BSM, provides audit trail analysis processes, and describes how to allocate devices. In addition, it contains a detailed description of the audit records.

System Administration Guide, Volume 1

This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems running the Solaris 8 release. It covers a broad range of Solaris system administration topics such as managing user accounts and groups; managing server and client support; shutting down and booting a system; managing removable media; managing software (packages and patches); managing disks and devices; managing file systems, and backing up and restoring data. 

Topics are described for both SPARC and IA based systems where appropriate. 

System Administration Guide, Volume 2

This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems running the Solaris 8 release. It covers a broad range of Solaris system administration topics such as managing printing services; working with remote systems (rlogin, ftp, and rcp); managing terminals and modems; managing system security; managing system resources (disk quotas, accounting, and crontabs); managing system performance; and troubleshooting Solaris software problems.

Topics are described for both SPARC and IA based systems where appropriate. 

System Administration Guide, Volume 3

This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems running the Solaris 8 release. It covers a broad range of Solaris network administration topics such as managing TCP/IP networks, modems, remote file systems, mail and DHCP.  

Topics are described for both SPARC and IA based systems where appropriate. 

OpenWindows Advanced User's Guide

This guide is for users of the Solaris system software, which consists of SunOS and OpenWindows. Use this guide to learn how to log in and out, start OpenWindows, use basic SunOS commands to get more information, work with files and directories, search the file system, use passwords, monitor processes and disk usage, use the vi editor, send electronic mail, print documents, use the network, and customize the environment. This guide also provides information about making the transition to OpenWindows 3.3 and Solaris 2.5, modifying keyboard behavior, running networked applications, and using PCMCIA cards. This guide provides detailed instructions for managing fonts in the OpenWindows environment.

OpenWindows User's Guide

This book provides new and experienced users with the basic information to get started with the Solaris user environment using OpenWindows and DeskSet applications. It describes tasks such as using the mouse, icons, scrollbars, windows, menus, pushpins, choosing exclusive and non-exclusive items, selecting from a scrolling list, and multiple objects. Additional topics include how to modify the OpenWindows workspace, troubleshooting, and how to access the AnswerBook2 server software to view documents online.  

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide

This book explains the advanced tasks needed to customize the appearance and behavior of the Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE). It includes chapters on customizing system initialization; login; session initiation; adding applications and providing interface representations for applications and their data; configuring desktop processes, applications, and data across the network; and customizing desktop services such as window management, printing, colors, and fonts.  

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide

This book describes the basic features of the CDE. It describes how to use the desktop and desktop applications.  

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Transition Guide

This book is for users who are making the transition from the OpenWindows environment to the Common Desktop Environment. It discusses CDE as a graphical operating environment and, where helpful, identifies the differences in behavior between OpenWindows and CDE. The answers to frequently asked questions have been integrated into the relevant topics. 

This document gives only an overview of CDE features and functions. You will find more complete information in Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide and the CDE online help.

Using Power Management

This book describes use of Power Management^TM hardware and software features on desktop machines. The hardware features allow the machine to shut down or reduce power consumption when it has been idle, according to conditions set with the software. This book covers use of the GUI and command line operations and activation of Suspend-Resume features through the keyboard.