Shermane Austin <SAACC@CUNYVM.BITNET> (06/23/91)
A friend of mine is upgrading from Dell's VR3 to 4. She was told that NO documentation comes with the software. I thought that the basic system installation/setup stuff is included and the rest of the documentation, e.g. sys admin, x, etc. must be purchased separately (from Prentice Hall) Would appreciate info on: 1. what docs come with upgrade 2. are online man pages included Please reply by email. Thanks.
scotte@applix.com (Scott Evernden) (06/24/91)
In article <91174.005932SAACC@CUNYVM.BITNET> SAACC@CUNYVM.BITNET (Shermane Austin) writes: >A friend of mine is upgrading from Dell's VR3 to 4. She was told that NO >documentation comes with the software. I thought that the basic system >installation/setup stuff is included and the rest of the documentation, >e.g. sys admin, x, etc. must be purchased separately (from Prentice Hall) > >Would appreciate info on: > 1. what docs come with upgrade > 2. are online man pages included I just received DELL V.4 on Friday: DELL V.4 comes with a very useful "guide" about 1/4 inch thick providing a cursory explanation of most aspects of the operating system. Compared to the pathetically minimal docs provided by the other vendors, DELL's is by far the best. But you shouldn't expect to get more than passing coverage on topics like: installation (complete info); basic UNIX tasks; installing add'l software; configuring hardware; using the sys admin facility; backing-up UNIX; configuring X windows, terminals, printers, TCP/IP, and SLIP; sending mail; using NFS, DOS Merge, UUCP, and VI; and info on migrating from 3.2. Also included is an index to the online man pages. I'm installing DELL V.4 as I type this, but from studying the tape, I believe there is *nothing* missing. Even complete X man pages are included in a pkg on the tape. So far, I'm pretty impressed. The folks at DELL have made this purchase simple and easy. The installation tape is even loading without problems from a not-recent model Wangtek SCSI drive which required kernal changes to make work on the other vendor implementations. I see the base installation is now done (30 mins via tape compared to like 3-4 hours from floppy, nice)... -scott
sblair@upurbmw.dell.com (Steve Blair) (06/24/91)
In article <91174.005932SAACC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, SAACC@CUNYVM.BITNET (Shermane Austin) writes: |> A friend of mine is upgrading from Dell's VR3 to 4. She was told that NO |> documentation comes with the software. I thought that the basic system |> installation/setup stuff is included and the rest of the documentation, |> e.g. sys admin, x, etc. must be purchased separately (from Prentice Hall) |> |> Would appreciate info on: |> 1. what docs come with upgrade |> 2. are online man pages included The following documentation comes with DELL V.4: 1) Working with DELL UNIX System V Release 4.0: This guide walks one through installation, and customization of your new machine/ OS. It has sections in it on SLIP, DOS/Merge(albiet limited) setting up UUCP, net news, X windows, and other topics. It is a specific document for our version/release of the operating system. If a purchaser wants more manuals, they can get them from us, or a quality bookstore. We resell the Prentice Hall/AT&T SVR4 docs, and have a huge list of them available. You can ask a DELL Sales rep for more information. 2) Online manual pages: (1) come at no extra charge(same as #1 above), and they have public domain(X, Elm, etc) manual pages also included in them. They are normal SYS-V formatted docs, and you can read them via conventional things such as man or help.... |> |> Please reply by email. Thanks. -- Steve Blair DELL UNIX DIVISION sblair@upurbmw.dell.com ================================================================ *Notice: "/earth is 98% full, please delete anyone you can...." -anonymous @dell.com