Chapter 2 Important Changes in the Solaris 8 Documentation Set

This chapter describes changes to the documentation set since the release of the Solaris 7 operating environment.

Release Notes and SUNWrdm Package

The Solaris online release notes are no longer included in the SUNWrdm package on the Solaris Software CD. The Solaris 8 Online Release Notes are now available on the Solaris Documentation CD. The online release notes are provided there in HTML, PDF, and AnswerBook form. Printed Release Notes are still included with the Solaris 8 product and cover installation issues only.

Installation Documentation

Your hardware manufacturer might supply the Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Installation Guide or Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Installation Guide in printed form. The installation guides are also available on the Solaris 8 Documentation CD.

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 Solaris 8 Reference Manual Collection.

Network Interface Guide

The Network Interface Guide replaces the Transport Interfaces Programming Guide in the Solaris 8 documentation set. For more information, see the Network Interface Guide.

Solaris Transition Guide Update

The Solaris Transition Guide Update is a supplement to the Solaris Transition Guide. It describes the differences between SunOS^TM release 4 and SunOS release 5 as of the Solaris 8 release. Use this book with the Solaris Transition Guide, which describes differences between SunOS release 4 and SunOS release 5 through the Solaris 7 release.

For more information, see the Solaris Transition Guide Update.

System Administration Guide, Volume 3

The System Administration Guide, Volume 3 is a new document that contains information previously documented in the TCP/IP Administration Guide, the NFS Administration Guide, and the Mail Administration Guide, as well as information on new and enhanced technology shipping with this Solaris release. The focus is on task-based procedures, with reference material covered separately in the guide.

For more information, see the System Administration Guide, Volume 3.

End-of-Life Statements

Programming Utilities Guide

The Programming Utilities Guide is not included in the Solaris 8 release. Implementation information on the topics that were covered in the guide is available in the following man pages:

• lex(1)

• yacc(1), a compiler compiler

• make(1S)

• sccs(1), source code control system

• m4(1) processor

• sysV-make(1)

Reference information can be found by going to at http://www1.fatbrain.com. Look for books, such as those published by O'Reilly, on the following topics:

• applying RCS and SCCS

• lex and yacc

• make

XGL Collection

The XGL^TM Collection is not included in the Solaris 8 documentation set. XGL is not supported in the Solaris 8 operating environment.