AIX Version 4.3 Differences Guide

Documentation Search Service does not support PDF files. The Netscape
Navigator browser and Acrobat Reader Version 3.0.1 are shipped with AIX 4.3.2
Bonus Pack.
The HTML documents can be searched using the Documentation Search
Service, bos.docsearch, an optionally installable component of the AIX base
operating system. It is highly recommended to install and configure the
Documentation Search Services since this service may be used by other
applications installed on the system. Chapter 9, “Online Documentation” on page
233 for installation information.
On-line documentation is also available at: http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/aix/library
10.7.2 Limitations
East European locales are not supported for searching, however product libraries
may be available if they are translated.
For the supported locales, it is not necessary to do any conversions for the
components to communicate with each other.
10.7.3 Invoking Documentation Search Service
The global search form can be accessed by:
• Type docsearch on the command line
• Click the Documentation Search Service icon in the CDE Desktop Help
subpanel.
The Documentation Search Service desktop action and the docsearch command
will both check for the existence of an environment variable DOC_LANG. This
variable is used to define the language in which to display the search form GUI. It
also specifies the language in which the search engine will conduct the search. If
not defined, the language used will be that of the launching environment, if
possible.
Set the DOC_LANG environment variable with the language locale you want to
search. The search form will only display indexes of the currently selected
language. The hit list will return hits from all books that were selected for search
in the search form. The chdoclang command will set the DOC_LANG environment
variable for you. See the AIX 4.3.2 Release Notes for more information on the
chdoclang command.
The language selection menu in the search form allows you to select the
language of the GUI. When a language is selected, the GUI is displayed in that
language and displays only the indexes for that language. The selection menu is
intelligent in that its contents are dynamically generated and it will display only
those languages that are currently available on the system being used.
10.7.3.1 Japanese Documentation Search
A Japanese search can be done in a Japanese CDE environment. If you are in
another language’s CDE environment, you need to set LANG to Ja_JP and map
the keyboard using the following command:
#xmodmap /usr/lpp/X11/defaults/xmodmap/Ja_JP/keyboard
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