This guide is for anyone who uses or administers a Win4Lin system and wants to understand more about how Win4Lin operates and how it can be customized.

The current version of all the Win4Lin documentation is available on the NeTraverse web site (http://www.netraverse.com/).

You will find the information you need more quickly if you are familiar with:

• ``How this guide is organized''

• ``Typographical conventions''

Although we try to present information in the most useful way, you are the ultimate judge of how well we succeed. Please let us know how we can improve this guide.

Other documents

• Manual Pages
  The manual pages document the command line utilities.
• Trouble Shooting Guide
  The Trouble Shooting Guide gives help with problems installing Win4Lin and with problems installing Windows, as well as other problems.

• ``About this guide'' provides an overview of the contents of this guide and gives a list of the notational conventions used.

• Chapter 1, ``Getting started with Win4Lin'', shows you how to use Win4Lin to start and stop a Win4Lin session.

• Chapter 2, ``Installing Windows'', explains how to install Microsoft® Windows.

• Chapter 3, ``Working in the Win4Lin environment'', describes the default Win4Lin environment that Win4Lin makes available to you, including the ways in which it differs from a stand-alone DOS or Windows environment.

• Chapter 4, ``Configuring DOS and Windows sessions'', shows you how to use the various Win4Lin tools to change the default environment to suit your needs.

• Chapter 5, ``Win4Lin resource administration'', describes how to administer your system's hardware resources for use with Win4Lin.

• Chapter 6, ``Using Win4Lin from the command line'', describes how to run and configure Win4Lin sessions from the command line.

• Chapter 7, ``Mixing Windows and Linux'', describes how to effectively use Windows and the Linux system together.

• Appendix A, ``X server issues'', describes the special setup of your X server or X terminal that is required to use Win4Lin.

• Appendix B, ``National language support'', describes Win4Lin features that support local languages in an environment shared by the Windows and Linux operating systems.

• Appendix C, ``Filename mapping'', describes how Win4Lin maps long filenames to short DOS compatible names.

Example . . . . . . . . Used for:

lpr or lpr(1)

commands, device drivers, programs, and utilities

The number in parentheses indicates the reference manual section in which the command, driver, program, or utility is documented.

/new/client.list

files, directories, and desktops

root

system, network, or user names

filename

placeholders (replace with appropriate name or value)

<Esc>

keyboard keys

Exit program?

system output (prompts, messages)

yes or yes

user input

Cancel

button names

Edit

menu names

Copy

menu items

File > Find > Text

sequences of menus and menu items

$HOME

environment or shell variables

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