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AIX Version 4.3 Package Guide for LPP Installation

Base System InfoExplorer and Softcopy Databases Packages

InfoExplorer is a text retrieval tool with several navigation aids to help the user find and manage information. The user can use InfoExplorer to learn the AIX operating system and other software and hardware. There are two versions of InfoExplorer: the ASCII interface and the graphics interface. This installation information is only for the ASCII interface. For the graphics version of InfoExplorer installation, please refer to the AIXwindows installation guide. The Base System InfoExplorer package has one fileset, bos.info.rte; the other filesets are included in the Base System InfoExplorer Database package.

The Base System InfoExplorer Database software package, bos.info.[lang], contains databases you can access with the InfoExplorer retrieval tool installed with your Version 4.2 Base Operating System (BOS). These databases contain hypertext information for BOS and other licensed programs. The fileset names listed below are shipped with the Version 4.2 BOS. Some other software products have separately installable databases containing documentation for those products.

Fileset Names

bos.info.rte Base System InfoExplorer

This fileset contains binary executables and necessary supporting files that are needed to run InfoExplorer with an ASCII terminal.

bos.info.[lang].assemb_ref Assembler InfoExplorer Database - [lang]

The Assembler InfoExplorer Database fileset contains information on the assembler language program as implemented in AIX .

bos.info.[lang].nav Navigation Database - [lang]

This fileset contains the Topic and Task Index, Commands list, Book list, Programming Reference list, Messages Index, and copyright and trademark information for the entire hypertext library.

bos.info.[lang].adapters_gd_ref Adapters Database - [lang]

This fileset contains guide and reference information for several adapters.

bos.info.[lang].aix_tech_ref AIX Technical Reference Database - [lang]

This fileset contains all the technical reference information for the AIX base operating system, operating system extensions, the kernel, and kernel subsystems.

bos.info.[lang].cmds_ref Commands Database - [lang]

This fileset contains all AIX commands and commands for several other licensed programs.

bos.info.[lang].files_ref Files Database - [lang]

This fileset contains all the file format references for AIX and for several other licensed programs.

bos.info.[lang].info_help Help for InfoExplorer - [lang]

This fileset contains helps for InfoExplorer.

bos.info.[lang].keybd_tech_ref Keyboard Technical Reference Database - [lang]

This fileset contains keyboard technical reference information for programmers.

bos.info.[lang].manage_gds AIX System Management Guides Database - [lang]

This fileset contains AIX managing guides.

bos.info.[lang].probsolv_gds AIX Problem Solving Guides Database - [lang]

This fileset contains problem solving and message recovery guides.

bos.info.[lang].prog_gds AIX Programming Guides - [lang]

This fileset contains programming guides for AIX and for several other licensed programs.

bos.info.[lang].smit_help Help for SMIT - [lang]

This fileset contains helps for SMIT.

bos.info.[lang].update Update Database - [lang]

This fileset contains updates (if any) for the entire hypertext library.

bos.info.[lang].user_gds AIX User Guides - [lang]

This fileset contains AIX user guides.

Approximate Disk Space Required

The Base System InfoExplorer package requires approximately 0.2MB of disk space.

The Base System InfoExplorer Database packages require approximately 116.2MB of disk space.

Requisite Software

Install requisite software either before or with the filesets you are installing from this package.

Fileset you are installing Requisite Software
Help for SMIT Softcopy Database System Management Interface Tool
(SMIT)
bos.sysmgt.smit
Navigation Database Base System InfoExplorer
bos.info.rte
Note: Install the Navigation Database, bos.info.[lang].nav, either before or with the database filesets you are installing from this or any other hypertext information base package.

Special Migration Notes

Migrating from Version 3.2

If you install InfoExplorer using the migration install, any Version 3.2 InfoExplorer databases are moved to new locations (%L represents a locale such as En_US, De_DE, etc):

To view your Version 3.2 databases, start InfoExplorer with the following command:

info -l 32

Any public libraries you installed in /usr/lpp/info/data remain unchanged and can be started with the same info command as used on Version 3.2.

Databases distributed by IBM on Version 3.2 in the directory /usr/lpp/info/data have their names changed to prevent a conflict with any new Version 4.2 database with the same name. The compilers database is renamed compilers32. To view the Version 3.2 compilers database on Version 4.2, enter the following command:

info -l compilers32

Migrating from Version 4.1

InfoExplorer requires that the documentation databases within a specified library be of the same level. You cannot have a mixture of 4.1 and 4.2 databases of the same library installed on your system because InfoExplorer can not access mixed-level databases correctly, and results are unpredictable. To avoid having mixed levels of InfoExplorer databases, when you install the 4.2 level bos.info.en_US.nav fileset, any currently installed 4.1 level InfoExplorer databases that are part of the /usr/lpp/info/lib/en_US/aix41 library are automatically removed. Note the following:

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