Preface

Simplified Chinese Solaris System Administrator's Guide provides system administration information specific to Simplified Chinese Solaris^TM operation in the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) and the OpenWindows^TM environment. This guide also includes some additional information that advanced users and developers can use to access and control the features of the Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment.

Who Should Use This Book

You should read this guide if:

• You need specific instructions on how to set up features for users.

• You are a system administrator who has not used the Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment, CDE, or the OpenWindows 3.x environment before.

• You are a developer who needs information on accessing and controlling the Simplified Chinese features of the Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment.

• You are an advanced user who wants to use or customize the Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment.

• You want information on a variety of details internal to the operation of the Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment.

You should already be familiar with Sun's standard product documentation and the documentation of the window system that you are using, either CDE or OpenWindows. This guide adds only Simplified Chinese features.

Before You Read This Book

Before you read this book, please review the product overview and any last-minute changes that arrived too late to be included in this document:

• Simplified Chinese Solaris Release Overview

• Asian Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Release Notes

• Asian Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Release Notes

Make sure to install your system properly as described in the document appropriate to your hardware platform:

• Solaris Advanced Installation Guide

• Solaris 8 (SPARC Platform Edition) Information Library

• Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Information Library

Each chapter of this manual addresses a different aspect of administration of the Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment. Some chapters give step-by-step instructions for using or customizing product features.

Chapter 1, Starting the Simplified Chinese Solaris Software introduces the Simplified Chinese Solaris operating environment, including CDE and the locales included in the product.

Chapter 2, System Environment describes advanced ways to use Simplified Chinese window system features.

Chapter 3, Setting Up Simplified Chinese Solaris Printing Facilities describes the set up for printers that can print Simplified Chinese output and the use of PostScript^TM printers.

Chapter 4, TTY Environment and Support covers setting terminals to use the proper protocols for the input and display of Simplified Chinese characters.

Appendix A, OpenWindows Information describes administration tasks relating to modifications made to the OpenWindows 3.x environment to localize it for Simplified Chinese and types of mail transmission and storage available.

Related Books

The following books are related to the topic of this book and may prove helpful for further reading.

For information on how to use the window system and associated applications:

• Solaris User's Guide

• Solaris Advanced User's Guide

For information about how to develop applications for this Simplified Chinese Solaris release:

• International Language Environments Guide

What Typographic Changes Mean

The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Example
AaBbCc123	The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output	Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% You have mail.
AaBbCc123	What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output	machine_name% su Password:
AaBbCc123	Command-line placeholder:  replace with a real name or value	To delete a file, type rm filename.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be root to do this.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P-2 Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell prompt	machine_name%
C shell superuser prompt	machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt	$
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt	#