Sun WorkShop Quick Install

Chapter 6 Viewing Online Documents

Sun WorkShop documentation is available online in AnswerBook2 document collections, and some Sun WorkShop documentation is available online in HTML format.

Viewing Sun WorkShop Document Collections

Sun WorkShop includes AnswerBook2 document collections. If you chose not to install the Sun WorkShop AnswerBook2 document collections when you installed Sun WorkShop, you must install the document collections to view them. To install the AnswerBook2 document collections, click the checkbox next to WS AnswerBook2 Document Collections 5.0 in the workshop_install GUI (see Chapter 3, Installing Software for more information).

Sun WorkShop document collections are SGML documents accessed through the AnswerBook2 Documentation Server. You can use your web-browser interface (HTML 3.2 compliant, such as Netscape NavigatorTM) to search, browse, and print Sun WorkShop document collections. Sun WorkShop document collections provide the same information as printed Sun WorkShop documentation.


Note -

The workshop-answerbooks command is obsolete and will not launch the AnswerBook2 Documentation Server.


To view Sun WorkShop document collections, you need:

From the Solaris 2.6 or Solaris 7 Operating Environments

Your Solaris software CD contains AnswerBook2 Documentation Server software. If you have not installed your AnswerBook2 Documentation Server software on your documentation server, see your Solaris printed documentation for installation instructions.

To view Sun WorkShop document collections, follow these steps:

  1. Through your browser, go to the URL of your AnswerBook2 Documentation Server.

    The URL of the documentation server is http://server-name:port-number (the default port-number is 8888).

  2. To view a document, click the title you wish to open.

If you cannot find Sun WorkShop document collections, you need to add them to your AnswerBook2 Documentation Server. For information about working with document collections, see Installing and Administering an AnswerBook2 Server online in the AnswerBook2 Help Collection, in your Solaris printed documentation, or on the web at http://docs.sun.com.

From the Solaris 2.5.1 Operating Environment

To view document collections, you need to download and install the AnswerBook2 Documentation Server software onto your machine. Follow these steps:

  1. Access the following web site:

    http://www.sun.com/software/ab2

  2. Follow the instructions for Solaris 2.5.1 users to download the AnswerBook2 Documentation Server software packages and install them onto your documentation server.

  3. Add your Sun WorkShop AnswerBook2 document collections to your AnswerBook2 Documentation Server.

    For information about adding and working with document collections, see Installing and Administering an AnswerBook2 Server online in the AnswerBook2 Help Collection or on the web at http://docs.sun.com.

  4. Through your browser, go to the URL of your AnswerBook2 Documentation Server (http://server-name:port-number).

  5. To view a document, click the title you wish to open.

Viewing HTML Documents

Sun WorkShop HTML online documents (viewed with a browser that supports tables, such as Netscape Navigator 2.0.1 minimum) is available for some Sun WorkShop documentation.

The following Sun Workshop documents are available online only in HTML format:

To view these HTML documents:

  1. Open the following file through your HTML browser:

    install-directory/SUNWspro/DOC5.0/lib/locale/C/html/index.html

    Replace install-directory with the name of the directory where your Sun WorkShop software is installed (the default is /opt).

    The browser displays an index of the HTML documents for the Sun WorkShop products that are installed.

  2. Open a document in the index by clicking the document's title.