Oracle9iAS DataDirect Connect JDBC Installation Guide Release 2 (9.0.3) Part Number B10201-01 |
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The DataDirect CD provides online books for the DataDirect Product Series. In addition, it provides Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is required to view the online books.
Some of the DataDirect product installers allow you to install the online books along with the product. In this case, the books are installed in the product's installation directory in a directory named books. To install the books when installing the product, remember to select the Online Books component.
The Connect JDBC installer automatically installs the online books into the Connect JDBC installation directory in a directory named books.
This chapter explains how to install the online books without using a product installer, view the online books, customize the online books, and install Acrobat Reader from the CD.
This chapter covers the following topics:
You can view the online books from the CD or install them to a local or network location. You must view the online books using Acrobat Reader 3.x, or later, licensed from Adobe Systems. The DataDirect CD includes Acrobat Reader 4.x with Search.
You can print the online books to create high-quality, hard-copy books. While viewing an online book in the Acrobat Reader, select File / Print to print the entire file (book), the current page, or a range of pages.
If you want to install the online books without using a product installer, you must maintain the same directory structure that is on the CD. You can install all the online books or specific ones:
To help you navigate through a DataDirect product's online books, an Acrobat file, called books.pdf, is provided. This file lists each online book provided for a product. We recommend that you open this file first and, from this file, open the book you want to view.
If you want to keep the books.pdf file open until you choose to close it, go to the Reader menu bar and select File / Preferences / General. Clear the check box for the Open Cross-Document Links in Same Window option.
Note: If you do not already have Acrobat Reader installed, you must install it before you can view the books. See "Installing Acrobat Reader" for details. |
% /acrobatreaderinstalldir/bin/acroread
D:\Program Files\Merant\slodbc51\books\slnk\books.pdf
or for Connect ODBC:
D:\Program Files\Merant\books\odbc\books.pdf
While viewing the online books, you can use hypertext links, perform text searches, and use bookmarks.
Cross-reference links within online books allow you to jump to related topics and other books within a product's documentation set. These links are displayed in blue and allow you to jump to a cross reference with a single click of the mouse. The page numbers in the table of contents and index are also hypertext links.
With Acrobat Reader with Search, you can perform full-text, boolean searches across all of a product's online books. You type a query and Acrobat Reader displays the matching text.
The search indexes for DataDirect online books were created with the word stemming search option. This option finds words that share a stem with a search word. For example, if you search for "programming," the Reader will also find "program" and "programs." The search indexes were not created using the Sounds Like and Case Sensitive options. Therefore, you cannot use these options when searching online books. Finally, numbers are not included in the search index and will not be found by a search.
All of the online books contain predefined bookmarks that make it easy for you to quickly jump to a specific topic. By default, the bookmarks are displayed to the left of each online book. For more information about using Acrobat Reader, refer to the online help for the product.
If you have Adobe Acrobat Exchange 3.0 or higher, you can customize the online books to reflect information specific to your work environment. For example:
For specific instructions on how to customize a book, refer to the Acrobat documentation.
You must view the online books using Acrobat Reader 3.x, or later, licensed from Adobe Systems. This CD includes the English version of Acrobat Reader 4.x with Search for the following platforms: Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Solaris, IBM-AIX, and HP-UX. The CD also includes Acrobat Reader 4.x without search for the Linux platform; Acrobat Reader 4.x with Search is not available at this time on Linux.
DataDirect software products may support platforms that are not supported by the Reader. To view the online books for these products, you must do so on a platform that the Reader does support.
Note: For the latest information about supported platforms for Acrobat Reader, refer to the Adobe Web site at: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html |
The CD contains Acrobat Reader 4.x. To view the online books, you must have Acrobat Reader 3.x or later installed on a local or network location. You cannot start the Reader directly from the CD. If you already have a copy of the correct version of Acrobat Reader with Search installed on your machine, you can skip the procedure documented in this section.
Network Administrators: To allow users to install Acrobat Reader from a network location, copy the entire \Readers\platform directory and its contents from the CD into a directory on the network server.
The instructions to install the Reader are the same whether you install it locally or to the network.
From Windows Explorer, navigate to the drive and directory containing the Reader; then, double-click the self-extracting program:
drive:\Readers\Win95nt\rs405eng.exe
# mount -F cdfs -o cdcase device mount_point
where device is the device name assigned to your CD-ROM drive. The device name can be found using the HP-UX tool sam.
For example, if the device name for your CD-ROM drive is /dev/dsk/c0t4d0 and you want to mount it over the directory /cdrom, you would enter the following command:
# mount -F cdfs -o cdcase /dev/dsk/c0t4d0 /cdrom
# mount -r -v cdrfs /dev/device /cdrom
where device is the device name assigned to your CD-ROM drive. The device name can be found using the AIX tool smith.
# mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/device /mnt/cdrom
where device is the device name assigned to your CD-ROM drive.
# mount
You should see a list of mounted file systems, including the CD-ROM drive you just mounted.
Copy the appropriate Acrobat Reader compressed file (.Z file) from the CD to your UNIX machine:
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