Figure 4. IRIS InSight Icon

For a description and listing of the manuals that are available to purchase in hard copy, double-click on the Documentation Catalog.

Your system comes with a set of IRIX reference (manual) pages, formatted in the standard UNIX^® “man page” style. These are found online on the internal system disk (or CD-ROM) and are displayed using the man command. For example, to display the reference page for the Add_disk command, enter the following command at a shell prompt:

man Add_disk

Important system configuration files as well as commands are documented on reference pages. References in the documentation to these pages include the name of the command and the section number in which the command is found. For example, “Add_disk(1)” refers to the Add_disk command and indicates that it is found in section 1 of the IRIX reference.

For additional information about displaying reference pages using the man command, see man(1).

In addition, the apropos command locates reference pages based on keywords. For example, to display a list of reference pages that describes disks, enter the following command at a shell prompt:

apropos disk

For information about setting up and using apropos, see apropos(1) and makewhatis(1M).

You can view the release notes for a variety of Silicon Graphics^® products and software subsystems using one of two utilities:

To see a list of available release notes, type the following at a shell prompt:

relnotes

For more information, see the relnotes(1) and grelnotes(1) reference pages.

Silicon Graphics makes its manuals available in a variety of formats via the World Wide Web (WWW). Using your Web browser, open the following URL:

http://www.sgi.com/

Look in the category “Customer Support” for the Technical Publications library listing. Click on the Technical Publications title to open the following URL:

http://www.sgi.com/Technology/TechPubs