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Getting Started with Your Documentation

This chapter introduces you to the Oracle8i Enterprise Edition for Windows NT documentation set. Read this chapter before installing or using Oracle8i Enterprise Edition.

Specific topics discussed are:

• Documentation Formats
• What Documentation Did I Receive?
• What Documentation Do I Read First?
• Starting Oracle Information Navigator
• Starting Adobe Acrobat Reader

Documentation Formats

This table describes the format and availability of documents in your Oracle8i Enterprise Edition kit and the tools required to view them.

Format	Availability	Tools Required
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)	All Oracle documentation is available in HTML.	Use Oracle Information Navigator to view your HTML documentation set. For information on how to start Oracle Information Navigator, see "Starting Oracle Information Navigator".
Portable Document Format (PDF)	All Oracle documentation is available in PDF.	Use Adobe Acrobat Reader to view your PDF documentation set. For information on how to start Adobe Acrobat Reader, see "Starting Adobe Acrobat Reader".
Printed	Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Installation Release 8.1.5 for Windows NT. This is the CD-ROM insert that contains the installation instructions.  Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release Notes for Windows NT. The release notes contain important last-minute installation and configuration information.  Note: Additional generic documentation may be included in your kit for this release.	To order printed guides, contact Oracle Documentation Sales:  Telephone [phone] in the United States of America. Visit: http://www.oracle.com/documentation/sales/

What Documentation Did I Receive?

Your documentation set consists of two types of documentation.

Documentation Type	Describes...
Operating system-specific	Installation, configuration, and use of Oracle8i Enterprise Edition products in a Windows NT, Windows 95, or Windows 98 environment. Operating system-specific documents are occasionally referred to in the generic documentation set. These documents are easy to identify because they always mention their specific operating system in their title.
Generic	Oracle8i Enterprise Edition, Net8 networking information, and application programming interface (API) information that is uniform across all operating system platforms. Most of the documents in your documentation set belong to this category. While reading through the generic documentation set, you are occasionally asked to refer to your platform-specific or operating system-specific documentation for procedures specific to the Windows NT, Windows 95, or Windows 98 operating systems.  To easily identify where these generic documentation references are described in your operating system documentation, see the index of this guide for the following entry:  generic documentation references  All generic documentation references described in this guide appear under this index entry.

IMPORTANT: Documentation may be included in your package detailing products that you did not buy or license, or whose functionality is not included in the current release. The presence of such documentation does not mean that these products are included in your package or that you are licensed to use them.

Online Documentation Set

Your online Oracle documentation set is divided into the following categories:
 

      Oracle8i Enterprise Edition for Windows NT and Windows 95/98 Installation

      Oracle8i Enterprise Edition for Windows NT and Windows 95/98 Release Notes

      Oracle8i Server, Release 8.1.5

      Oracle8i Server Networking and Security, Release 8.1.5

      Oracle8i Java Products, Release 8.1.5

      Oracle8i interMedia, Spatial, Time Series, and Visual Information Retrieval Options, Release 8.1.5