Installation guide

Launching the AnswerBook2 Viewer
If you are running the Solaris 2.6 operating system and you select the AnswerBook2
icon provided on the CDE front panel, select AnswerBook2 from the OpenWindows
Programs menu, or enter the answerbook2 command, the system launches a web
browser with the URL for the document server. It finds the web browser to launch
by searching your path and launching HotJava or the first web browser it finds in
your path. For information on how the system determines the URL for the document
server, see “Finding a Document Server” on page 9-12.
If you are not running the Solaris 2.6 operating system, you can also access the
AnswerBook2 product from any HTML 3.2-compliant web browser. Start up your
web browser and point it to the appropriate document server URL. For example, if
your system administrator installed an AnswerBook2 document server on the system
imayoyo, you would access the URL http://imayoyo:8888.
Finding a Document Server
If this is the first time you have started the AnswerBook2 viewer, the software
displays a list of the complete library (all collections and their books) installed on the
“default” document server. The “default” server is identified using one of the
following mechanisms:
1. If you have defined the environment variable, AB2_DEFAULTSERVER, the
AnswerBook2 viewer launches using the URL defined by that variable. For
example, you might have the following line in your .cshrc file:
setenv AB2_DEFAULTSERVER http://imayoyo.eng.sun.com:8888/
2. If the machine from which you initiated the AnswerBook2 function is a document
server, the AnswerBook2 viewer launches using the URL: localhost:8888.
3. If you are using FNS (Federated Naming Services), the AnswerBook2 viewer
launches using the document servers it finds under the FNS
thisorgunit/answerbook/servers list. For more information about FNS, see
“Registering the Server” on page 9-18.
If you have no document servers available, you can also access Sun’s master
document server at http://docs.sun.com.
Installing Document Server Software
This section explains the requirements you must meet and decisions you should
make before you install the AnswerBook2 server software.
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Information Library for Solaris 2.6 (Intel Platform Edition) ♦ August 1997