unix documentation through solaris

Phred Phungus

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Mar 10, 2010, 2:52:31 AM3/10/10

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hello ng,

Been a while since I did anything with sun. Ian Collins mentioned the
following link

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/solaris.10

in the context of getting me some decent documentation on the unix
specification. Can someone pin down the details of this a little more
closely?

Who do I know at Sun? Maybe Eric Sosman and Bob Corbett? (Hi guys)

Cheers,
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fred

Ian Collins

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Mar 10, 2010, 2:57:46 AM3/10/10

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On 03/10/10 08:52 PM, Phred Phungus wrote:
> hello ng,
>
> Been a while since I did anything with sun. Ian Collins mentioned the
> following link
>
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/solaris.10
>
> in the context of getting me some decent documentation on the unix
> specification. Can someone pin down the details of this a little more
> closely?

Go to the source:

http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification/

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Ian Collins

Phred Phungus

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Mar 25, 2010, 8:56:25 PM3/25/10

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Do I need to have a disc burner to install Solaris, given that I have a
dual boot ubuntu/windows x86?

I think English talk shows are so funny. We get several of them here in
New Mexico.
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John D Groenveld

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Mar 26, 2010, 9:57:34 AM3/26/10

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In article <812f1q...@mid.individual.net>,

Phred Phungus <Ph...@example.invalid> wrote:
>Do I need to have a disc burner to install Solaris, given that I have a
>dual boot ubuntu/windows x86?

Probably easier for you to experiment with (Open)Solaris
by running under VirtualBox.
<URL:http://www.virtualbox.org>

John
groe...@acm.org

Phred Phungus

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Mar 28, 2010, 2:35:02 AM3/28/10

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Thanks John, but no thanks.

I went through huge efforts to have a solaris partition and then found
out that the development suite I bought from Sun wouldn't run on
Opensolaris.

So OPensolaris is my bad Clooney movie, and I want the beautiful Russian
one.
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fred

Ian Collins

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Mar 28, 2010, 2:48:13 AM3/28/10

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On 03/28/10 07:35 PM, Phred Phungus wrote:
> John D Groenveld wrote:
>> In article <812f1q...@mid.individual.net>,
>> Phred Phungus <Ph...@example.invalid> wrote:
>>> Do I need to have a disc burner to install Solaris, given that I have
>>> a dual boot ubuntu/windows x86?
>>
>> Probably easier for you to experiment with (Open)Solaris
>> by running under VirtualBox.
>> <URL:http://www.virtualbox.org>
>
> Thanks John, but no thanks.
>
> I went through huge efforts to have a solaris partition and then found
> out that the development suite I bought from Sun wouldn't run on
> Opensolaris.

What development suite?

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Phred Phungus

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Mar 28, 2010, 5:16:01 AM3/28/10

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Ian Collins wrote:

> What development suite?
>

SunStudio_12:
Linux Solaris_SPARC Solaris_x86 SunStudio_12Docs

Ian Collins

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Mar 28, 2010, 6:18:35 AM3/28/10

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..and OpenSolaris. It's also free.

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Chris Ridd

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Mar 28, 2010, 6:51:04 AM3/28/10

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Perhaps he paid for support?
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Stefaan A Eeckels

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Mar 28, 2010, 7:27:37 AM3/28/10

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SunStudio 12.1 is available on OpenSolaris:

sae@blinky:~$ man sunstudio
User Commands sunstudio(1)

NAME
sunstudio - Sun Studio 12 Update 1 integrated development
environment

...

You install it (for free) through the package manager.

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Paul Floyd

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Mar 28, 2010, 8:17:41 AM3/28/10

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Hi

If you asked straight questions, yoi might get straight answers. As it
is you keep going off at a tangent. Try using google for advice on
asking questions on usenet.

What are you trying to achieve?

There are lots of sources of documentation. The SUSv3 spec, Solaris
manpages, Sun Studio documentation, docs.sun.com, books like APUE
(Stevens and Rago) AUP (Rochkind), language references like K&R,
Harbison and Steele, Strustrup.

A bientot
Paul
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