Finding Solaris 10 Documentation Online

The docs.sun.com^SM Web site enables you to access Sun technical documentation online. You can browse the docs.sun.com archive or search for a specific book title or subject. The URL is http://docs.sun.com. Man pages are available at this Web site. In addition, man pages are directly available at the command line. This section describes all of these Solaris 10 documentation options.

Solaris 10 documentation is also available on a Solaris 10 Documentation DVD. For further information, see Solaris 10 Documentation Media.

Using the Sun Documentation Web Site

Complete Solaris 10 documentation is provided at the http://docs.sun.com Web site. Advantages to this Web site include the following:

• The Web site contains the most current revisions of all Solaris documentation.

• The http://docs.sun.com Web site is searchable.

Searching for Solaris 10 Documentation

Because no web server is located on the Solaris 10 Documentation media, no search feature is included on the media. To search the documentation, use one of these actions:

• Go to the Sun^TM online documentation Web site at http://docs.sun.com/. This Web site contains online documentation for current and previous Solaris releases, as well as for many other Sun products. This site provides multiple entry points into the documentation, including a robust search engine that can handle complex searches.

• Install the document collections in your own environment and connect them to a search engine. This approach requires that you have a web server and a search engine installed on your system.

  The following list identifies just a few of the Solaris 10 collections that are available for download.

  • Java Desktop System Release 3

  • Solaris 10 International Language Support Collection

  • Solaris 10 on Sun Hardware Collection

  • Solaris 10 Reference Manual Collection

  • Solaris 10 Release and Installation Collection

  • Solaris 10 Software Developer Collection

  • Solaris 10 System Administrator Collection

  • Solaris 10 User Collection

• If you do not have a search engine, Sun includes a simple freeware search utility (sgrep) on the Solaris 10 Companion CD. For more information, see the sgrep man page on the Solaris 10 Companion CD. As an alternative, see the sgrep Web site at http://www.cs.Helsinki.FI/u/jjaakkol/sgrep.html.

Finding Man Pages

Solaris 10 man pages are provided on the Solaris 10 Documentation DVD and online at http://docs.sun.com/. Both sites include the following man page sections from the Solaris 10 Reference Manual Collection:

• man pages section 1: User Commands

• man pages section 1M: System Administration Commands

• man pages section 2: System Calls

• man pages section 3: Basic Library Functions

• man pages section 3: Networking Library Functions

• man pages section 3: Curses Library Functions

• man pages section 3: Realtime Library Functions

• man pages section 3: Extended Library Functions

• man pages section 3: Library Interfaces and Headers

• man pages section 3: Multimedia Library Functions

• man pages section 4: File Formats

• man pages section 5: Standards, Environments, and Macros

• man pages section 6: Demos

• man pages section 7: Device and Network Interfaces

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

• man pages section 9: DDI and DKI Kernel Functions

• man pages section 9: DDI and DKI Properties and Data Structures

In addition, individual man pages can be displayed at the command line by performing the following steps.

Displaying Man Pages Online

Steps

1. Optional: At the command line, type man man.

   For users who are not familiar with man pages, this optional step provides an introduction.

   The man(1) page is displayed. This man page provides the following information:

   • Location of man pages

   • Man command options

   • Manual page organization

   • Man page search path

   • Additional references

2. At the command line, type man name.

   The man page is displayed for the interface and its options.