Hi Peter,

Make that http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/40.17 
to see all the available commands. When I tried 
the link below, it went straight to section 1, 
User Commands, but there are more than 15 sections 
of man pages in the Reference Manual Collection.

- Penny


On 11/30/09 10:13, Penny.Cotten at Sun.COM wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> You will undoubtedly get more responses, but in the meantime, go to 
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2239/ to see all the available 
> commands.
> 
> For example, the pwd command is found here: 
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2239/pwd-1?l=en&a=view&q=pwd
> 
> If you know the command name and just want to view the information from 
> the prompt while you are working, type:
> 
> man command
> 
> For example:
> 
> sr1-uego02-02{pennyc}2: man pwd
> Reformatting page.  Please Wait... done
> 
> User Commands          pwd(1)
> 
> NAME
>      pwd - return working directory name
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>      /usr/bin/pwd
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>      The pwd utility writes an absolute path name of the  current
>      working directory to standard output.
> ...
> 
> Please write me if you would like to know more about man pages, 
> docs.sun.com, and other documentation sites for OpenSolaris.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Penny
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/30/09 01:26, peter joseph wrote:
>> Upon hearing all the noise Sun Micro has been making regarding 
>> OpenSolaris I decided to give it a try.  SM promptly sent me a CD, 
>> free of charge, which I immediately installed on my laptop.  
>> Installation was as smooth as baby's but.  Even though I have been 
>> using Fedora for a number of years, when it came to Solaris system 
>> command structure I was totally lost.  Searching the system and the CD 
>> was of no help.  Sun website, as usual, full of we-are-the-best stuff 
>> while short on useful info proved to be just that -- no useful info 
>> pertaining to commands.
>> I could have been looking in wrong places, but any Linux website you 
>> go to will readily direct you to a ton of links dealing with this 
>> subject.
>> Opensolaris seems to be a great os, but I have to ask; Who is behind 
>> this disjointed presentation of it?  Why is it that everything that 
>> comes out of Sun Microsystems is so screwed up?  Is it beyond their 
>> capability to put together a simple command list?  If so, use the 
>> common Unix-based commands rather than some exotic commands conjured 
>> up by some Debian genius.
>> It's too bad.  I do admit, it has a potential, nevertheless, not being 
>> able to work with it I had to dump it.
>> Hopefully, Oracle will clean the house...
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