Manuals on CDs

Since early 1993, most vendors include electronic versions of UNIX manuals with the OS release. Utilities to read them are included in the operating system.

The table below enumerates the vendor and the name of their on-line manual utility.

Table 6.2: Tools to read ``CD" manual set.

Vendor	Product Name	Command
Hewlett Packard	Laserrom	lrom
IBM	InfoExplorer	info
Silicon Graphics	Insight	insight
Sun Microsystems	AnswerBook	answerbook
Digital	Bookreader	bookreader

Most Linux distributions do not include such a tool. But the /usr/share/doc directory contains documentation on many of the packages, many of which is in HTML so can be read with any Web Browser.

The Linux Documentation Project, located on the web at

http://www.linux.org/docs/

offers generic linux documentation on-line.

The Research Computing Support Group also has linux documentation on their web site at

http://www.nrc.ca/imsb/rcsg/linux/documentation/

(access to that site may be limited to internal NRC only).