Installation guide

Features and Functions
The AnswerBook2 product provides the following features and functions:
Uses a web-browser-based interface so that you can view online documentation
from any platform (running any operating system), provided that your web
browser supports HTML 3.2
Depending on your web browser’s configuration, lets you copy information from
AnswerBook2 documents and paste it into other locations, such as your command
line
Provides a robust search engine for finding words and word phrases throughout
the documentation library
Gives you the ability to print pages, chapters, and books directly from the
AnswerBook2 interface
Lets you view old and new AnswerBook documents using a single interface
Lets you define a subset of document collections (a Personal Library) to be
displayed when using a specific document server
Uses a client-server architecture that allows the documents to be stored in a single
location (server) and accessed from the user’s desktop (client)
Provides a command-line interface (CLI) and a browser-based interface (GUI) for
performing administrative functions
Differences Between AnswerBook1 and
AnswerBook2
The following list identifies the significant differences between the AnswerBook1 and
AnswerBook2 products:
Web-browser-based interface—The AnswerBook2 product uses a
web-browser-based interface. As a result, you can use any HTML 3.2-compliant
browser on any platform to view online documentation.
Source flexibility—You can use the AnswerBook2 server to deliver AnswerBook1
(Display Postscript
TM
) documents, AnswerBook2 documents (developed in SGML),
or regular HTML files.
Note - Although you can use the server to deliver HTML documents, complete
AnswerBook2 functionality is not provided for these files.
Client–server support—The AnswerBook2 product supports the client-server
architecture, which allows you to install the server and document collections in a
central location and view the documents from other systems. In addition, it
includes a “fail-over” mechanism in which the document administrator can define
multiple document servers so that links between documents always work.
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Information Library for Solaris 2.6 (Intel Platform Edition) ♦ August 1997