Quick Beginnings Personal Edition

Printing the PostScript Books

If you prefer to have printed copies of the manuals, you can decompress and print PostScript versions. For the file name of each book in the library, see the table in DB2 Information - Hardcopy and Online. Specify the full path name for the file you intend to print.

On OS/2 and Windows platforms:

Copy the compressed PostScript files to a hard drive on your system. The files have a file extension of .exe and are located in the x:\doc\language\books\ps directory, where x: is the letter representing the CD-ROM drive and language is the two-character country code that represents your language (for example, EN for English).
Decompress the file that corresponds to the book that you want. Each compressed book is a self-extracting executable file. To decompress the book, simply run it as you would run any other executable program. The result from this step is a printable PostScript file with a file extension of .ps.
Ensure that your default printer is a PostScript printer capable of printing Level 1 (or equivalent) files.
Enter the following command from a command line:
```
   print filename.ps
```

On UNIX-based platforms:

Mount the CD-ROM. Refer to your Quick Beginnings manual for the procedures to mount the CD-ROM.
Change to /cdrom/doc/%L/ps directory on the CD-ROM, where /cdrom is the mount point of the CD-ROM and %L is the name of the desired locale. The manuals will be installed in the previously-mentioned directory with file names ending with .ps.Z.
Decompress and print the manual you require using the following command:
- For AIX:
```
  zcat filename | qprt -P PSPrinter_queue
```
- For HP-UX, Solaris, or SCO UnixWare 7:
```
  zcat filename | lp -d PSPrinter_queue
```
- For Linux:
```
  zcat filename | lpr -P PSPrinter_queue
```
- For Silicon Graphics IRIX:
```
  zcat < filename | lp -d PSPrinter_queue
```
where filename is the full path name and extension of the compressed PostScript file and PSprinter_queue is the name of the PostScript printer queue.
For example, to print the English version of DB2 for UNIX Quick Beginnings on AIX, you can use the following command:
```
  zcat /cdrom/doc/en/ps/db2ixe60.ps.Z || qprt -P ps1
```

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