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What's New in the Solaris 9 4/04 Operating Environment

Preface

What's New in the Solaris 9 4/04 Operating Environment describes all features that are in the SolarisTM 9 4/04 release. Chapter 2 provides a list of all enhancements that were made available in the original Solaris 9 release, which was released in May 2002. Chapter 1 summarizes new features that have been added to the Solaris 9 9/02 release and subsequent Solaris 9 releases.

The Solaris operating system runs on the SPARC® platform and certain x86 platforms. The information in this document pertains to all platforms unless otherwise specified in a special chapter, section, note, bulleted item, figure, table, or example.

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Related Books

For further information about the Solaris 9 features that are summarized in this book, refer to the following Sun documentation:

For further information about the Sun JavaTM Enterprise System, see Sun Java Enterprise System 2003Q4 at http://docs.sun.com.

Accessing Sun Documentation Online

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Typographic Conventions

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.

Numerals in parentheses next to a command or function name, for example, ioctl(2), indicate the reference manual section number where the manual page (“man page”) for the command or function is located.

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 promptmachine_name%
 C shell superuser promptmachine_name#
 Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt$
 Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt#