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AIX Version 4.3 Differences Guide

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Chapter 9. Online Documentation<br />

There have been several changes made to the way on-line assistance is provided<br />

in <strong>AIX</strong> <strong>Version</strong> <strong>4.3</strong>. The main change is the move from InfoExplorer, that is<br />

essentially proprietary in nature, to a more generalized HTML-based system.<br />

9.1 Documentation Search Service<br />

The growing influence of the World Wide Web has made the Web browser a<br />

common element of users day-to-day work. For many, the Web browser is a core<br />

component of how they perform tasks. To meet this user need, InfoExplorer on<br />

<strong>AIX</strong> is replaced with the Documentation Search Service and HTML-based product<br />

documentation. InfoExplorer will no longer be part of the base <strong>AIX</strong> installation<br />

media; however, it will remain available as a separately orderable LPP to service<br />

the InfoExplorer libraries that still exist.<br />

<strong>AIX</strong> <strong>4.3</strong> provides an optionally installable component called the Documentation<br />

Search Service. It allows you to search on-line HTML documents, such as the<br />

<strong>AIX</strong> product documentation. It provides a search form for use with a Web<br />

browser. When you enter key words into the search form, the Document Search<br />

Service searches for the words, and then presents a search results page that<br />

contains links that lead to the documents that contain the target words.<br />

The Documentation Search Service contains all of the features that you would<br />

normally expect to see from InfoExplorer, such as:<br />

• List of Books<br />

• Commands Reference<br />

• Programming Reference<br />

• Search Facility<br />

9.1.1 Installation of Documentation Search Service<br />

You can set up one of your <strong>AIX</strong> systems in your organization to be the<br />

documentation server and all other systems as documentation clients. This will<br />

allow documentation to be installed only on one system and all other systems can<br />

access this system without needing the documentation installed locally.<br />

You need the following products and components installed for a complete set of<br />

services:<br />

• For the client:<br />

1. A Web browser<br />

2. The bos.docsearch.client.* filesets (for <strong>AIX</strong> integration)<br />

• For the documentation server (which may also act as a client)<br />

1. The entire bos.docsearch package<br />

2. The documentation libraries<br />

3. A Web browser<br />

4. A Web server<br />

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