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You can obtain SGI documentation, release notes, or man pages in the following ways:
• See the SGI Technical Publications Library at http://docs.sgi.com. Various formats
are available. This library contains the most recent and most comprehensive set of
online books, release notes, man pages, and other information.
• If it is installed on your SGI system, you can use InfoSearch, an online tool that
provides a more limited set of online books, release notes, and man pages. With an
IRIX system, select Help from the Toolchest, and then select InfoSearch. Or you can
type infosearch on a command line.
• You can also view release notes by typing either grelnotes or relnotes on a
command line.
• You can also view man pages by typing man <title> on a command line. The
following paragraphs provide more information about man pages.
SGI systems include a set of IRIX man pages, formatted in the standard UNIX "man
page" style. Important system configuration files and commands are documented on
man pages. These are found online on the internal system disk (or CD-ROM) and are
displayed using the man command. For example, to display the man page for the
Add_disk command, type the following on a command line:
man Add_disk
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 man pages using the man command, see
man(1).
In addition, the apropos command locates man pages based on keywords. For example,
to display a list of man pages that describe disks, type the following on a command line:
apropos disk
For information about setting up and using apropos, see apropos(1) and
makewhatis(1M).
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