Documentation

This section describes improvements in the AnswerBook2 server software and the reorganization of the Solaris 8 Reference Manual.

For more information on changes in the Solaris 8 documentation set, see About Solaris 8 Documentation.

AB2 1.4.2 AnswerBook2 Server

The AnswerBook2 version 1.4.2 server software provides improved performance, a textual, rather than graphical, navigation interface, and the ability to view and search information by collection.

For more information, see the Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Installation Guide or the Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Installation Guide.

This feature was first available in the Solaris 7 8/99 release.

Reference Manual Reorganization

The section of the SunOS Reference Manual that describes the C library functions (but does not include the system calls) now contains six books instead of one. These books are:

• Library Interfaces and Headers

• Basic Library Functions

• Networking Library Functions

• Threads and Realtime Library Functions

• Extended Library Functions

• Curses Library Functions

In addition, many of the man page suffixes have been changed to reflect the library that contains the function (for example, all man pages describing functions contained in libnsl now have the suffix .3NSL).

For more information, see the Intro(1) man page and About Solaris 8 Documentation.