Sun WorkShop documentation is available online in AnswerBook2 document collections, and some Sun WorkShop documentation is available online in HTML format.
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.
The workshop-answerbooks command is obsolete and will not launch the AnswerBook2 Documentation Server.
To view Sun WorkShop document collections, you need:
An AnswerBook2 Documentation Server (a machine on which the AnswerBook2 Documentation Server software packages are installed)
The URL for your AnswerBook2 Documentation Server
A browser
Sun WorkShop AnswerBook2 document collections added to your AnswerBook2 Documentation Server
For information about working with document collections and administering a documentation server, see Installing and Administering an AnswerBook2 Server in the AnswerBook2 Help Collection or through http://docs.sun.com.
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:
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).
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.
To view document collections, you need to download and install the AnswerBook2 Documentation Server software onto your machine. Follow these steps:
Access the following web site:
http://www.sun.com/software/ab2
Follow the instructions for Solaris 2.5.1 users to download the AnswerBook2 Documentation Server software packages and install them onto your documentation server.
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.
Through your browser, go to the URL of your AnswerBook2 Documentation Server (http://server-name:port-number).
To view a document, click the title you wish to open.
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:
Tools.h++ Class Library Reference
Tools.h++ User's Guide
Numerical Computation Guide
Standard C++ Library User's Guide
Standard C++ Class Library Reference
Sun WorkShop Performance Library Reference Manual
Sun WorkShop Visual User's Guide
Sun WorkShop Memory Monitor User's Manual
To view these HTML documents:
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.
Open a document in the index by clicking the document's title.