Additional Documentation
For additional information, you might want to refer to the following types of documentation:
On-Line Manuals
An Answers OnLine CD that contains Informix manuals in electronic format is provided with your Informix products. You can install the documentation or access it directly from the CD. For information about how to install, read, and print on-line manuals, see the installation insert that accompanies Answers OnLine.
Printed Manuals
To order printed manuals, call 1-800-331-1763 or send email to moreinfo@informix.com.
Please provide the following information:
HTML Documentation
The INFORMIX-GLS man pages are available as HTML documentation. You can access these man pages with a web browser and the appropriate URL. The URL must include the full pathname of the directory designated by your INFORMIXDIR environment variable.
If you are using INFORMIX-GLS on a UNIX operating system, the URL is $INFORMIXDIR/doc/gls_api/en_us/0333/index.htm. 
If you are using INFORMIX-GLS in a Windows environment, the URL is INFORMIXDIR\doc\gls_api\en_us\04e4\index.htm.
For example, if INFORMIXDIR is set to /u/informix on a UNIX operating system, you would type the following absolute pathname to open the URL:
Error Message Files
Informix software products provide ASCII files that contain all of the Informix error messages and their corrective actions. The finderr utility displays these error messages on the screen. See the Introduction to the Informix Error Messages manual for a detailed description of these error messages.
To read the error messages in the ASCII file, Informix provides scripts that let you display error messages on the screen (finderr) or print formatted error messages (rofferr). For a detailed description of these scripts, see the Introduction to the Informix Error Messages manual.
Informix Find Error is a graphical tool. This utility has been created with Microsoft help facilities. For more information, see the Introduction to the Informix Error Messages manual.
Documentation Notes, Release Notes, Machine Notes
In addition to printed documentation, the following on-line files supplement the information in this manual. For UNIX, these files are located in the $INFORMIXDIR/release/en_us/0333 directory. For Windows, these files are located in the $INFORMIXDIR\release\en_us\04e4 directory.
Please examine these files because they contain vital information about application and performance issues.
Related Reading
For additional information about cultural and linguistic requirements around the world, and how computer systems handle those requirements, consult the following books on internationalization:
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