About This Manual

This guide describes the documentation kits and documents that are available for your Digital UNIX system. It also provides a glossary of Digital UNIX terms and a a master index for the Digital UNIX documentation set.

Audience

This guide is for anyone using the Digital UNIX documentation. It can help you decide which manuals in the documentation set are most useful to you and how you can use those manuals.

The glossary helps you understand terms that are new to you.

The master index helps you find a specific topic in the documentation set by pointing you to the pages in the appropriate manual where the topic is discussed.

New and Changed Features

The Documentation Overview, Glossary, and Master Index has been revised in the following ways for this release:

Documentation Overview
This part of the manual has been revised to describe accessing the new HTML documents. These new documents replace the Bookreader documents that were included in previous releases.
The manual has also been revised to add descriptions for new manuals and to modify descriptions of manuals, where necessary. Order numbers for documentation kits and individual manuals have been updated.
Glossary
New terms have been added for this release. Where needed, definitions of existing terms have been updated.
Master Index
The Master Index has been updated and reflects the new hardcopy Digital UNIX documentation set. Also, an HTML version of this part of the manual is available for the first time at this release.

Organization

This guide is divided into three parts as follows:

Part I
Describes the Digital UNIX documentation set. It explains how the documentation is organized into separate kits, provides a brief description of each manual in the set, and provides information on how to order printed documentation.
This part of the guide is organized as follows:
- Section 1 provides information about the release notes.
- Section 2 describes the Digital UNIX online reference information.
- Section 3 describes the packaging of the Digital UNIX documentation and the contents of each manual.
- Section 4 describes the contents of the Digital UNIX Reference Pages.
- Section 5 provides information on how to order Digital UNIX printed documentation.
Part II
Contains a glossary of computer terms, particularly those related to the operating system.
Part III
Contains the master index for the documentation set.

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Conventions

The following conventions are used in this document:

%
$ A percent sign represents the C shell system prompt. A dollar sign represents the system prompt for the Bourne and Korn shells.

% cat Boldface type in interactive examples indicates typed user input.

cat(1) A cross-reference to a reference page includes the appropriate section number in parentheses. For example, cat(1) indicates that you can find information on the cat command in Section 1 of the reference pages.

`%` `$`	A percent sign represents the C shell system prompt. A dollar sign represents the system prompt for the Bourne and Korn shells.
`%` `cat`	Boldface type in interactive examples indicates typed user input.
`cat`(1)	A cross-reference to a reference page includes the appropriate section number in parentheses. For example, `cat`(1) indicates that you can find information on the `cat` command in Section 1 of the reference pages.