Set Up Man Pages Using InfoExplorer Hypertext CDROM

Please refer to Chapter 14 of the AIX Version 4.1 System Management Guide, order numbers SC23-2525-01.

The Hypertext Information Base Library for AIX Version 4.1 is a licensed product. The Hypertext Information Base Library is ordered using:

 
Product number: 5696-919 
Feature code: 4001 
Media Type:  3410 CD ROM 

1. To create and mount the CD-ROM file system and run the /infocd/linkinfocd script, root user authority or membership in the system group is required.
2. The LANG variable in the systems environment must be set to the correct value, en_US for US English. To display the variable, enter:

    
   echo $LANG 
   

Use the command smit chlang to change the LANG variable.

To access InfoExplorer databases from CD-ROM for the first time, complete the following steps:

1. Create a CD-ROM file system with /infocd as the mount point. Use the 'smit crcdrfs' fast path to create the CD-ROM file system.
2. Mount the CD-ROM file system using the smit fastpath, 'smit mountfs'.
3. Run the linkinfocd script by entering:

    /infocd/linkinfocd

The linkinfocd script links the database subdirectories from the /infocd CD-ROM file system to the /usr/lpp/info/lib/en_US/aix41 directory. Each database sub-directory is linked individually, just as each database can be installed separately. This allows databases to be installed on a fixed disk drive, databases linked from a mounted CD-ROM, or a combination of both. The script also links the ispaths file from the /infocd CD-ROM file to the /usr/lpp/info/data directory.

The linkinfocd script does the following:

• Checks to see if InfoExplorer (/usr/lpp/info) is installed on the system. If /usr/lpp/info does not exist, the script exits.

• Checks to see if the /usr/lpp/info/lib/en_US/aix41 directory exists and creates it if it is not found.

• Checks to see if the database subdirectories exist by looking for the name in /usr/lpp/info/lib/en_US/aix41 as:

  prefix=checkoff.

  If the name is a link from the CD-ROM, the script prints a message that the database is already linked from the CD-ROM.
  If the name is a link from elsewhere, the script forces the link from the CD-ROM over the existing link.
  If the name is a directory, the script prints a message that the database must be deinstalled if it is to be linked from the mount CD-ROM.

• If the database subdirectory is not found in /usr/lpp/info/lib/en_US/aix41, the script links that database subdirectory from /infocd/usr/lpp/info/lib/en_US/aix41 to /usr/lpp/info/lib/en_US/aix41.

The script then checks to see if the /usr/lpp/info/data/ispaths file exists.