The tutorial is designed to be read sequentially. Later chapters and sections assume that you are familiar with the preceding material, and earlier exercises create files and database entities that are used by later exercises. If you plan to work through the tutorial exercises, make sure that you create the ProxWebKB database (see Exercise 3.1) used in most of the remaining tutorial exercises. We suggest that you work through the chapters in order. To get the most benefit from the tutorial, complete the exercises using your local installation of Proximity.
The examples in this chapter demonstrate how to use Proximity
for both Linux/Mac OS X and Windows systems. The rest of the
Tutorial provides only the Linux/Mac OS X
commands. In most cases, the only differences are using a
.bat file instead of .sh
file for Proximity applications, substituting appropriate paths
to files, and using the appropriate syntax for the operating system.
Windows users should refer back to this chapter if they have questions
about specific Proximity applications and commands.
This tutorial uses the following typographic conventions:
Constant width, boldText you type on the command line or in the Proximity Database Browser
Constant width, italicsText you replace with the appropriate value
Constant widthOutput from the application or code fragments
Code fragments, application output, and text you type on the command line are usually shown with a gray background. In some cases, the tutorial may include additional line breaks not present in actual application output so that the output fits within a standard page width.
The tutorial uses UNIX-style paths as a generic path
syntax. You may need to make appropriate syntax substitutions if you
are running Proximity on a Windows platform.
Windows-specific examples are included only when users must enter
different information or perform different actions to use Proximity on
Windows platforms. Long command lines use continuation characters
(\) to indicate that the following line is part
of the same command. Enter such text on a single line, without the
continuation character.