Oracle8i Installation Guide
Release 2 (8.1.6) for Windows NT

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Getting Started with Your Documentation

This appendix introduces you to the documentation set.

Specific topics discussed are:

Documentation Formats

This table describes the format and availability of Oracle8i Online Documentation and the tools required to view them.

Format  Availability  Tools Required 

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)  

All Oracle documentation is available in HTML. 

Use a Web browser to view your HTML documentation set.

The Oracle Information Navigator, a tool that enables you to search your entire HTML documentation library for information, is also available for viewing your HTML documentation set. See "Installing and Viewing the Oracle8i Online Documentation" for information on Web browser requirements. 

Portable Document Format (PDF)  

All Oracle documentation is available in PDF. 

Use Adobe Acrobat Reader to view your PDF documentation set. See "Installing and Viewing the Oracle8i Online Documentation" for information on Adobe Acrobat Reader requirements. 

Text file format 

Some Oracle components are also documented in README files located in the ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\RELNOTES directory. 

Use an ASCII text editor.  

Printed 

A CD-ROM insert describes how to access your Oracle documentation and get started with installation. 

None required. 


Note:

To order printed guides, contact Oracle Documentation Sales:

  • Telephone 1 (800) 252-0303 in the United States of America.

  • Visit:

    http://oraclestore.oracle.com/
    
 

What Documentation Did I Receive?

Your Oracle8i Online Documentation consists of two types of documentation.

Documentation Type  Describes... 

Operating system-specific 

Installation, configuration, and use of Oracle8i products in a Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows 2000 environment. Operating system-specific documents are occasionally referred to in the generic documentation set. These documents are easy to identify because their titles typically mention their specific operating system or make reference to a Microsoft feature. 

Generic  

Oracle8i, 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 and the Oracle8i Administrator's Guide for Windows NT 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 Oracle8i Online Documentation is divided into the following categories:

Oracle8i for Windows, Release 8.1.6

Master Index

Release Notes and Installation

Administration, Concepts, and Reference

SQL*Plus

Language and Interface Documentation

Application Development

Oracle Migration Workbench

Oracle Enterprise Manager, Release 2.1.0

Oracle8i Generic Documentation Master Index, Release 8.1.6

Oracle8i Server and Data Warehousing, Release 8.1.6

Concepts, Administration, and Reference

Backup and Recovery

Data Warehousing

Distributed Databases

Oracle8i Server Application Development, Release 8.1.6

Application Development

Language and Interface Documentation

Oracle8i Server Networking and Security, Release 8.1.6

Oracle8i Parallel Server, Release 8.1.6

SQL*Plus, Release 8.1.6

Oracle8i interMedia, Spatial, Time Series, and Visual Information Retrieval Options, Release 8.1.6

Oracle8i interMedia Options

Oracle8 Spatial, Time Series, and Visual Information Retrieval Options

Oracle8i Java Developer's Documentation, Release 8.1.6

Oracle WebDB, Release 2.2


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