Top Document: SGI misc Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -1- How can I quickly find the information I want in the SGI FAQs? Next Document: -3- With what version(s) of IRIX do the SGI FAQs deal? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge The SGI FAQs are on the World Wide Web in hypertext form at http://www-viz.tamu.edu/~sgi-faq/. The hypertext version (as well as the plain text) may be FTPed from ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/faq/ for offline reading. You can also get the FAQ source from the same place and build the hypertext yourself. There are several archives of FAQs from news.answers converted to hypertext, including the SGI FAQs, listed at http://www.jazzie.com/ii/internet/faqs.html, and some mirrors of just the SGI FAQs: http://reality.sgi.com/employees/jm/sgi-faq.html/ http://www.sgi.com/Archive/FAQs/ (and at www.sgi.com's mirrors) Anyone is welcome to set up their own mirror, public or not. Please note that the SGI FAQ group does not administer any of these sites, so we can't guarantee that any of them are complete or up-to-date. You can read the hypertext SGI FAQs with any WWW browser, e.g. Mosaic (which you can get from ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/Mosaic/), Netscape (ftp://ftp.netscape.com/netscape/unix/ for the generic version or http://www.sgi.com/Products/Evaluation/netscape/page1.html for the custom SGI version) or, for text terminals, Lynx (ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/WWW/lynx/). A Mosaic binary for IRIX 4.0.x, including WAIS support, is in IBD's SGI collection; see below under "WWW pages". Some types of references in the SGI FAQs are formatted so that our hypertext conversion software (and perhaps others') recognizes them and turns them into links: - References to Internet services are written as URLs. ('protocol://site/path/file'). If you're reading the SGI FAQs as plain text, you can paste URLs into your browser. If you're not using a WWW browser and you want to access an FTP URL ('ftp://site/path/file'), just do 'ftp site', 'cd /path' and 'get file' as usual to get a file. References to directories end with slashes so you know what you're getting into. Some FTP servers are incompatible with some WWW browsers; use 'ftp' or another browser. At this writing viz.tamu.edu does not accept FTP connections from Netscape; use 'ftp', Mosaic or lynx. - Manpages are written 'foo(1)' in the traditional Unix manner and linked to the "uman" database of IRIX manpages at http://reality.sgi.com/cgi-bin/uman. - Internet RFCs ("Requests for Comment") are written 'RFC####' and linked to the collection of RFCs at http://ds.internic.net/rfc/. User Contributions:Top Document: SGI misc Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -1- How can I quickly find the information I want in the SGI FAQs? Next Document: -3- With what version(s) of IRIX do the SGI FAQs deal? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (The SGI FAQ group)
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