Summary
Now that you have completed this chapter, you should have a firm understanding of the following:

The Sun Solaris Operating Environment has many different forms of help available to users and administrators. With CDE help, you are able to use the help viewer window, search on a particular help topic and use onitem help. Each CDE window and application also has a help option in the upper right corner. The help viewer window can be accessed from the workspace menu or the help icon on the front panel.

AnswerBook2 is a powerful online searchable version of the Solaris manuals. Several book collections are presented including information for Administrators, Users and Developers.

Command line help is available in the form or man pages. Man pages cover nearly every UNIX command and provide a quick reference when you need to check the syntax or options available with a particular command. There are several options available with the man command including keyword and section search capabilities. The whatis command can be used to refresh your memory as to what a command does by providing a brief definition and purpose of the command.

When problems occur, you can help to narrow down the possibilities by following a systematic approach to identifying and correcting the problem. Contact a system administrator or the service/help desk for problems you can't resolve.

Users who are familiar with DOS commands,  will have an easier time learning UNIX since many of the DOS commands were derived from UNIX. There are hundreds of UNIX commands and they can be used to accomplish all the tasks that DOS users would normally need to do but in a UNIX environment.