The QNX Neutrino User's Guide is intended for all users of a QNX Neutrino RTOS system, from system administrators to end users.
This guide tells you how to:
This User's Guide is intended for programmers who develop QNX Neutrino-based applications, as well as OEMs and other "resellers" of the OS, who may want to pass this guide on to their end users as a way to provide documentation for the OS component of their product.
The online version of this guide contains links to various books throughout our entire documentation set; if you don't have the entire set installed on your system, you'll naturally get some bad-link errors (e.g., "File not found").
The following table may help you find information quickly:
To find out about: | Go to: |
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How QNX Neutrino compares to other operating systems | Getting to Know the OS |
Starting and ending a session, and turning off a QNX Neutrino system | Logging In, Logging Out, and Shutting Down |
Adding users to the system, managing passwords, etc. | Managing User Accounts |
The basics of using the keyboard, command line, and shell (command interpreter) | Using the Command Line |
Files, directories, and permissions | Working with Files |
How to edit files | Using Editors |
Customizing your shell, setting the time, etc. | Configuring Your Environment |
Creating your own commands | Writing Shell Scripts |
The filesystems that QNX Neutrino supports | Working with Filesystems |
Accessing other machines with QNX Neutrino's native networking | Using Qnet for Transparent Distributed Processing |
Setting up TCP/IP | TCP/IP Networking |
Adding printers to your system and using them | Printing |
Adding USB devices, terminals, video cards, and other hardware to your system | Connecting Hardware |
Adding embedded HTTP services and dynamic content to embedded web applications | Setting Up an Embedded Web Server |
Backing up and restoring your files | Backing Up and Recovering Data |
Making your QNX Neutrino system more secure | Securing Your System |
Analyzing and improving your machine's performance | Fine-Tuning Your System |
How many processes, files, etc. your system can support | Understanding System Limits |
How to get help | Technical Support |
Samples of buildfiles, profiles, etc. | Examples |
Terms used in this document | Glossary |
For information about programming in QNX Neutrino, see Getting Started with QNX Neutrino and the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide.