The first place to look for help is in our documentation,
but if you still have problems, there are several other avenues of help.
In the QNX Software Development Platform,
the online documents are in HTML, which you
can access in the IDE's help system.
On self-hosted QNX Neutrino systems, you can also look at the documentation
in the Photon helpviewer.
You can download PDF versions of the documentation from our website,
http://www.qnx.com.
The complete QNX SDP documentation set contains the
following books, arranged here under each main component:
Aside from the Welcome to the QNX Software Development Platform
guide, this bookset includes:
- 10 Steps to Developing a QNX Program: Quickstart Guide
 
- A tutorial that helps you install QNX Momentics on a host machine,
  install the QNX Neutrino RTOS on a target machine,
  set up communications between the two systems,
  and then use the IDE to develop a program on the host machine
  and run it on the target.
  
  
  
 
- Installation Guide
 
- Instructions for installing and uninstalling QNX SDP.
 
- Release Notes
 
- Important details about QNX SDP.
  For the most up-to-date version of these notes, go to our website,
  http://www.qnx.com.
 
- Utilities Reference
 
- Describes the Neutrino configuration files, utilities, and manager
processes you'll use during development and at runtime.
 
- IDE User's Guide
 
- Describes the QNX Momentics Integrated Development
Environment, how to set up and start using the tools to
build Neutrino-based target systems, etc.
 
- Phindows Connectivity
 
- Tells you how to access Photon from a Windows machine.
 
- System Architecture
 
- Describes the concepts and architecture of the QNX
Neutrino microkernel, resource managers, processes, threads,
message-passing services, and more.
 
- QNX Neutrino User's Guide
 
- Explains how to interact with a running Neutrino
system. Covers both Photon and text-mode interfaces, as well
as various system-administration topics.
 
- Getting Started with QNX Neutrino: A Guide for Realtime Programmers
 
- This book, by Rob Krten, will help you design and develop robust
  realtime systems — from tiny embedded control applications to 
  large network-distributed systems — using the QNX Neutrino RTOS.
  
  
 
- QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide
 
- Tells you how to get started writing programs, including
interrupt handlers, etc.
 
- Building Embedded Systems
 
- Tells you how to get the OS running on your target
embedded system, write an IPL, customize a startup program,
etc.
 
- Utilities Reference
 
- Describes the Neutrino configuration files, utilities, and manager
processes you'll use during development and at runtime.
 
- QNX Neutrino Library Reference
 
- Describes the C library data types and functions, including POSIX
threads, kernel calls, resource manager functions, etc.
 
- Writing a Resource Manager
 
- Describes how to write a program that registers a name in the
  filesystem name space, which other processes then use to communicate
  with the resource manager.
  A resource manager is frequently (but not always) a device driver.
  
  
  
 
- Audio Developer's Guide
 
- Describes how to write audio applications.
  
 
- Addon Interfaces Library Reference
 
- Describes the Addon Interfaces Library and how to use it to add
  extendability to applications that use standard interfaces.
  
 
- Adaptive Partitioning
  User's Guide
 
- Describes how to divide system resources (e.g. processor time) in a
  flexible way between competing processes.
  
 
- Core Networking User's Guide
 
- Describes the QNX Neutrino Core Networking stack and its
  manager, io-pkt.
  
  
  
 
- High Availability Framework Developer's Guide
 
- Describes how to use the High Availability Manager (HAM) to detect,
  isolate, and recover from software faults.
  
  
 
- Instant Device Activation User's Guide
 
- Describes how to start devices quickly when the system boots.
  
 
- Multicore Processing User's Guide
 
- Describes how to get the most performance possible out of a multicore
  system.
  
 
- Persistent Publish/Subscribe Developer's Guide
 
- Information about the Persistent Publish/Subscribe (PPS) system,
  a resource manager that makes it easy to disseminate
  information to interested processes.
  
  
 
- System Analysis Toolkit User's Guide
 
- Describes how to use the SAT with our instrumented microkernel.
  You can log every communication and state change within the microkernel,
  including interrupts, all parameters/return values from kernel calls,
  and scheduling decisions, resulting in a deeper and more detailed analysis
  of system elements.
  You can even perform kernel-level diagnostics remotely.
  
  
  
   
 
- BSP guides
 
- Describe how to get Neutrino running on your target board.
  We support boards in these processor families: ARM/XScale,
  MIPS, PowerPC, SH-4, and x86.
  You can download BSPs from our Foundry27 website,
  
  http://community.qnx.com
  
  
 
- Driver Development Kit guides
 
- Describe how to write drivers for QNX Neutrino.
  You'll find a separate DDK guide for audio, character, graphics, input,
  and Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices.
  You can download the DDKs from our website, but 
  the QNX Software Development Platform includes the documentation.
  
  
 
- Technical Notes
 
- Deals with a series of topics (e.g. IP tunneling) that aren't covered in the
basic documentation set.
 
- Photon Programmer's Guide
 
- Gives you a hands-on tour of the Photon Application Builder (PhAB).
You'll learn how to quickly
assemble a GUI from predefined widgets, link the GUI to an
application, and generate C source to bring the GUI to
life.
 
- Photon Library Reference
 
- Provides concise descriptions of Photon's and PhAB's
global data structures and functions.
 
- Widget Reference
 
- Contains guidelines for programming widgets, along with
concise descriptions of all global data structures,
resources, and convenience functions associated with
widgets. It also gives you practical examples of how to use
Photon widgets and widget functions.
 
- Building Custom Widgets
 
- Explains how to create a custom widget and how to bind
it into PhAB.
If you need a widget whose features extend the
standard capabilities of the Photon widget library, this
guide is for you.
 
- Photon Multilingual Input
 
- Tells you how to input Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters in Photon.
 
- Advanced Graphics Developer's Guide
 
- Describes how to create graphical applications that use the
  QNX Graphics Framework API and the OpenGL ES APIs.
  
 
- Composition Manager Developer's Guide
 
- Describes how to use
  the QNX Composition Manager, a hardware-independent layer of
  abstraction that encompasses all aspects of window management,
  such as window creation, realization, and destruction.
  
 
- Web Browser Engine Developer's Guide
 
- Describes how to build a web browser using the Web Browser Engine,
  a high-performance embeddable web browser that's based on the
  WebKit open-source engine.
  
 
- Dinkum C++ Library
 
- A conforming implementation of the Standard C++ library.
 
- Dinkum C99 Library
 
- A conforming implementation of the Standard C library, as revised in 1999. 
  
 
- Dinkum EC++ Library
 
- A conforming implementation of
the Embedded C++ library as specified by the Embedded C++
Technical Committee.
 
Click . There you'll find several booksets
listed, including
A Roadmap to the QNX Software Development Platform.
The other documents
listed, such as the Workbench User Guide and
JDT Plug-in Developer Guide, pertain to the Eclipse
platform and its various plugins.

Getting help in the IDE.
Note that the IDE's internal help system has a builtin
search facility.
For details, see
“Using the QNX Help system”
in the Getting Started chapter of the IDE User's Guide.
If you're using Neutrino self-hosted, you can access the
documentation via our native Helpviewer.

Photon Helpviewer.
To open the Helpviewer,
click the Help button in the Applications group on
the shelf or select Help from the right-click menu
on the desktop.
For more information, see
“Getting help with the Helpviewer”
in the Using the Photon microGUI chapter of the
Neutrino User's Guide, as well as the entry for
helpviewer
in the Utilities Reference.
Nearly every book in the QNX documentation set has
its own keyword index. At the top and bottom of the
online documents, you'll find a link to the keyword
index file (keywords-all.html).
Here's a quick way to get to the keyword-index files of
the online documents:
- Adaptive Partitioning User's Guide—index
 
- Advanced Graphics Developer's Guide—index
 
- Audio DDK—index
 
- Audio Developer's Guide—index
 
- Building Custom Widgets—index
 
- Building Embedded Systems—index
 
- Character DDK—index
 
- Core Networking User's Guide—index
 
- Getting Started with QNX Neutrino: A Guide for Realtime Programmers—index
 
- Graphics DDK—index
 
- High Availability Framework Developer's Guide—index
 
- Input DDK—index
 
- Multicore Processing User's Guide—index
 
- Photon Library Reference—index
 
- Photon Programmer's Guide—index
 
- Photon Widget Reference—index
 
- QNX Neutrino Library Reference—index
 
- QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide—index
 
- QNX Neutrino User's Guide—index
 
- System Analysis Toolkit User's Guide—index
 
- System Architecture—index
 
- USB DDK—index
 
- Utilities Reference—index
 
- Welcome to the QNX Software Development Platform—index
 
- Widget Reference—index
 
- Writing a Resource Manager—index
 
Many people simply don't read manuals cover to cover. They
often browse or search the documentation for a specific topic,
usually for information on how to do a certain task. But if
you want to approach your tasks with enough knowledge to
work effectively, it's a good idea to start with the
System Architecture
guide; it will help
you understand Neutrino's unique features,
particularly its message-based interprocess
communication (IPC) and microkernel architecture.
Once you know how Neutrino works, you'll then want to
know how to work with it; our
10 Steps to Developing a QNX Program: Quickstart Guide
is a short tutorial that will get you started in a matter of minutes.
Which document you'll need next depends
on when you need it.
Most of the documents in the bookset are geared
towards developing your Neutrino-based
applications. Of these development books, some are how-to
guides, and some are reference works. 
  | 
Some books are useful during development as well as at
runtime.
For instance, the
Utilities Reference
is a comprehensive document that includes descriptions of both
development utilities (e.g.
make), which you wouldn't normally use on your
target, as well as runtime programs (e.g.
devc-sersci), which you would run only on your
target. | 
 
Here are the main how-to guides and their corresponding
reference books:
The most runtime-oriented document in your bookset is the
QNX Neutrino User's Guide,
which describes how to
use and interact with a running Neutrino
system. The book covers both Photon and text-mode
interfaces, as well as various system-administration topics.
Other runtime-oriented documents include the
Utilities Reference
and the
IDE User's Guide
(for
information on diagnostic tools you'd use on a running system).
The following list may help you learn which document to look in
when you want information on certain key features or components of the
OS and tools.
- Adaptive partitioning
 
- Adaptive Partitioning
  User's Guide
 
- Asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP)
 
- Multicore Processing
  in the System Architecture guide
  
 
- Audio support
 
- Audio Developer's Guide 
(for writing audio applications); 
Audio DDK 
(for writing audio device drivers);
io-audio manager and the
deva-*
drivers in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Bound multiprocessing (BMP)
 
- Multicore Processing
  in the System Architecture guide;
  the Multicore Processing
  User's Guide;
  procnto*
  in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- BSPs
 
- See our Foundry27 website,
  http://community.qnx.com
 
- Buildfiles
 
- Making an OS Image
  in Building Embedded Systems;
  mkifs
  in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- CD-ROM
 
- Working with Filesystems
  in the QNX Neutrino User's Guide;
  cam-cdrom.so
  in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Channels
 
- Channel*, 
Msg*, and 
  Connect*
  functions in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference;
  Message Passing
  in Getting Started with QNX Neutrino: A Guide for Realtime Programmers;
  Writing a Resource Manager.
  
 
- Compiling
 
- 10 Steps to Developing a QNX Program: Quickstart Guide;
  Developing C/C++ Programs
  in the IDE User's Guide;
  Compiling and Debugging
  in the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide;
  make
  and
  qcc
  in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Compression
 
- Making an OS Image
  in Building Embedded Systems;
  deflate
  in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- CPU time, sharing among competing processes
 
- Adaptive Partitioning
  User's Guide
 
- Data server
 
- Setting Up an Embedded Web Server
  in the QNX Neutrino User's Guide;
  ds
  in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- DDKs
 
- Driver Development Kits (DDKs).
  The QNX Software Development Platform includes the documentation, but
  if you want the DDKs, you must download them from our website.
 
- Debugger
 
- 10 Steps to Developing a QNX Program: Quickstart Guide;
  Debugging Programs
  in the IDE User's Guide;
  Compiling and Debugging
  in the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide;
  gdb
  and other debugging utilities in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Device management
 
- devctl()
  in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference;
  Resource Managers
  in Getting Started with QNX Neutrino: A Guide for Realtime Programmers;
  Writing a Resource Manager;
  dev* drivers
  in the Utilities Reference;
  Instant Device Activation User's Guide.
  
 
- Editors
 
- 10 Steps to Developing a QNX Program: Quickstart Guide;
  IDE Concepts
  in the IDE User's Guide;
  Using Editors
  in the QNX Neutrino User's Guide;
elvis, 
ped, 
qed, 
sed, and 
  vi
  in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Embedded systems
 
- Building Embedded Systems.
  
 
- Endian issues
 
- Freedom from Hardware and Platform Dependencies
  in the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide.
  
 
- Environment, configuring
 
- Controlling How Neutrino Starts
        and
        Configuring Your Environment
  chapters in the QNX Neutrino User's Guide.
  
 
- Environment variables
 
- Commonly Used Environment Variables
  appendix in the Utilities Reference;
  environ()
  in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference;
  Using the Photon microGUI
        and
        Configuring Your Environment
  chapters in the QNX Neutrino User's Guide.
  
 
- Event handling (OS)
 
- MsgDeliverEvent()
  in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference;
  Message Passing
  in Getting Started with QNX Neutrino: A Guide for Realtime Programmers;
  Writing an Interrupt Handler
  in the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide.
  
 
- Event handling (Photon)
 
- Events
  in the Photon Programmer's Guide;
  phrelay
  in the Utilities Reference.
 
- Faults, recovering from
 
- High Availability Framework Developer's Guide.
 
- File handling
 
- creat()
  and related functions via its “See also” section in the
  QNX Neutrino Library Reference;
  basename, cat, etc. in the
  Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Filesystems
 
- Working with Filesystems
  in the QNX Neutrino User's Guide.
  
 
- Fonts
 
- Fonts chapter and
  Photon in Embedded Systems
  appendix in the Photon Programmer's Guide.
  
 
- Graphics
 
- Graphics DDK;
  devg-*
  drivers in the Utilities Reference;
  Photon Programmer's Guide;
  Advanced Graphics Developer's Guide;
  Composition Manager Developer's Guide
  
 
- Hardware
 
- Connecting Hardware
  in the QNX Neutrino User's Guide.
  
 
- HID (human input devices)
 
- hidview
  and
  devh-*
  drivers in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Helpviewer (Photon)
 
- Using the Photon microGUI
  in the QNX Neutrino User's Guide;
  helpviewer
  in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- I/O management
 
- iofunc*, 
Interrupt*, and 
  open()
  and related functions via open()'s “See also”
  section in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference;
  Resource Managers
  in Getting Started with QNX Neutrino: A Guide for Realtime Programmers;
  Writing a Resource Manager.
  
 
- IPC (interprocess communication)
 
- pthread_mutex*, 
SyncMutex*, 
sem_*,
SyncSem*, 
pthread_cond*, and 
SyncCondvar*
  in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference.
  See also “Message Passing,” below.
  
 
- IPL (Initial Program Loader)
 
- Writing an IPL Program
  in Building Embedded Systems.
  
 
- Images (OS)
 
- Making an OS Image
  in Building Embedded Systems;
  mkifs
  in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Images (graphical)
 
- Raw Drawing and Animation
  in the Photon Programmer's Guide.
  
 
- Input
 
- Input DDK;
  devh-*
  and
  devi-*
  drivers in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Instrumented kernel
 
- System Analysis Toolkit User's Guide.
  
  
 
- Interrupt handling
 
- InterruptAttach()
  and related functions in its “See also” section in 
  the QNX Neutrino Library Reference;
  Interrupts
  in Getting Started with QNX Neutrino: A Guide for Realtime Programmers;
  Writing an Interrupt Handler
  in the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide.
  
 
- Kernel calls
 
- Channel*,
Clock*,
Connect*,
Debug*,
Interrupt*,
Msg*,
Sched*,
Signal*,
Sync*,
Thread*,
Timer*, and
TraceEvent()
  in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference.
  
 
- Keyboard support
 
- Using the Command Line
  in the QNX Neutrino User's Guide;
  mkkbd
  and related utilities in its “See also” section in
  the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Libraries
 
- Compiling and Debugging
  in the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide;
  Building OS and Flash Images
  in the IDE User's Guide.
  
 
- Linker
 
- Compiling and Debugging
  in the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide;
  qcc
  and related utilities in its “See also” section in the
  Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Makefile structure
 
- Developing C/C++ Programs
  in the IDE User's Guide;
  Conventions for Recursive Makefiles and Directories
  in the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide.
  
 
- Memory management
 
- mem*,
mmap*,
posix_mem*,
  and
  malloc()
  in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference;
  Heap Analysis: Making Memory Errors a Thing of the Past
  in the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide;
  Finding Memory Errors
  in the IDE User's Guide.
  
 
- Message passing
 
- Msg*, 
Connect*, and 
Channel* in QNX Neutrino Library Reference.
  See also “IPC,” above.
  
 
- Message queues
 
- mq_*
  functions in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference;
  mqueue and mq
  in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Multicore systems
 
- Multicore Processing
  in the System Architecture guide;
  the Multicore Processing
  User's Guide;
  procnto*
  in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Native networking (Qnet)
 
- See “Transparent distributed processing,” below.
 
- Network drivers
 
- io-pkt*,
  devn-*, devnp-*
  drivers in the Utilities Reference;
  QNX Neutrino Core Networking User's Guide
  
  
 
- Permissions (on files, directories)
 
- Managing User Accounts
    and
    Working with Files
    chapters in the QNX Neutrino User's Guide;
chmod(), 
stat(), and 
  umask()
  in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference;
  chmod
  in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Process manager
 
- procnto* in Utilities Reference;
procmgr_*
  in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference.
  
 
- Processes
 
- Processes and Threads
  in Getting Started with QNX Neutrino: A Guide for Realtime Programmers;
  Processes
  in the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide;
exec*,
fork*, and 
spawn*
  in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference.
  
 
- Profiler (application)
 
- Profiling an Application
  in the IDE User's Guide.
  
 
- Profiler (system)
 
- Analyzing Your System with Kernel Tracing
  in the IDE User's Guide.
 
- Pulses
 
- MsgSendPulse(),
MsgReceivePulse(), and
pulse_*
  in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference;
  Message Passing
  in Getting Started with QNX Neutrino: A Guide for Realtime Programmers;
  “Handling private messages and pulses” in the
  Handling Other Messages chapter of Writing a Resource Manager.
  
 
- QoS (Quality of Service)
 
- “Quality of Service and multiple paths” in the Native Networking (Qnet) chapter in System Architecture;
netmgr_ndtostr()
  in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference.
  
 
- RAM disk
 
- io-blk.so (using the ramdisk=size option), 
devb-ram, and 
devf-ram
  in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Realtime scheduling
 
- Sched* functions and 
sched_param
  structure in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference.
  
  
 
- Resource management
 
- Resource Managers
  in Getting Started with QNX Neutrino: A Guide for Realtime Programmers;
  Writing a Resource Manager;
  resmgr_*
  and
  iofunc_*
  in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference.
  
 
- Resources, sharing among competing processes
 
- Adaptive Partitioning
  User's Guide
 
- Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)
 
- Multicore Processing
  in the System Architecture guide;
  the Multicore Processing
  User's Guide;
  procnto*
  in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Self-hosted development
 
- Compiling and Debugging
  in the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide.
  
 
- Signal handling
 
- sigaction()
  and related functions via its “See also” section in the
  QNX Neutrino Library Reference.
  
 
- Startup programs
 
- Customizing Image Startup Programs in Building Embedded Systems;
  startup-*
  in the Utilities Reference.
  
 
- Synchronization
 
- Sync*
  functions in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference.
  
 
- System information
 
- pidin
  in the Utilities Reference;
  Analyzing Your System with Kernel Tracing
  in the IDE User's Guide;
  Fine-Tuning Your System
  in the QNX Neutrino User's Guide.
  
 
- Target agent (qconn)
 
- qconn
  in the Utilities Reference;
  IDE Concepts
  in the IDE User's Guide.
  
  
 
- Threads
 
- pthread_* and
  Thread*
  in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference;
  Processes and Threads
  in Getting Started with QNX Neutrino: A Guide for Realtime Programmers;
  Programming Overview
  in the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide.
  
 
- Time
 
- Configuring Your Environment
  in the QNX Neutrino User's Guide;
  Clock*,
  time(),
  and related functions via their “See also” sections in the
  QNX Neutrino Library Reference.
  
 
- Timestamps (for files)
 
- touch
  in the Utilities Reference;
  utime()
  and related functions via its “See also” section in the
  QNX Neutrino Library Reference.
  
  
 
- Timers
 
- alarm(),
Timer*, 
and timer_*
  in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference;
  Clocks, Timers, and Getting a Kick Every So Often
  in Getting Started with QNX Neutrino: A Guide for Realtime Programmers.
  
 
- Transparent distributed processing 
 
- Using Qnet for Transparent Distributed Processing
  in the QNX Neutrino User's Guide;
  Transparent Distributed Processing via Qnet
  in the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide;
  lsm-qnet.so
  in the Utilities Reference;
  netmgr_*
  in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference.
  
  
  
  
 
- USB
 
- Connecting Hardware
  in the QNX Neutrino User's Guide;
devu-*,
devh-usb.so,
devi-hid, and
  io-usb
  in the Utilities Reference;
USB DDK.
  
 
- Unicode
 
- wc*() (wide-character functions)
  in the QNX Neutrino Library Reference;
  Unicode Multilingual Support
  in the Photon Programmer's Guide.
  
  
 
- Version control
 
- Managing Source Code
  in the IDE User's Guide;
  Using CVS
  in the QNX Neutrino User's Guide;
  cvs
  in the Utilities Reference;
  Version Control with Subversion (O'Reilly & Associates).
  
  
 
- Web browsers
 
- Web Browser Engine Developer's Guide
  
 
- Web server (slinger)
 
- Setting Up an Embedded Web Server
  in the QNX Neutrino User's Guide;
  slinger
  in the Utilities Reference.
  
  
 
- XIP (execute in place)
 
- Building OS and Flash Images
  in the IDE User's Guide;
  Writing an IPL Program
  in Building Embedded Systems.
  
  
 
- Krten, Robert. 2003. The QNX Cookbook: Recipes for Programmers.
Ottawa, ON, Canada: PARSE Software Devices. ISBN 0-9682501-2-2.
 
The latest POSIX standards documents are available online here:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/nframe.html
In addition to the POSIX standards themselves, you might find the
following books useful:
- Butenhof, David R. 1997.
  Programming with POSIX Threads.
  Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
  ISBN 0-201-63392-2.
 
- Gallmeister, Bill O. 1995.
  POSIX.4: Programming for the Real World.
  Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates.
  ISBN 1-56592-074-0.
 
- Hunt, Craig. 2002.
  TCP/IP Network Administration.
  Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates.
  ISBN 0-596-00297-1.
  
  
 
- Stevens, W. R., Fenner, B., Rudoff, A. 2003.
  UNIX Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API.
  Third edition.
  Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Professional.
  ISBN 0-131-41155-1.
  
  
  
  
 
- Stevens, W. R. 1998.
  UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2: Interprocess Communications.
  Second edition.
  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  ISBN 0-130-81081-9.
  
  
 
- ———. 1993.
  TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols.
  Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
  ISBN 0-201-63346-9.
  
 
- ———. 1995.
  TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation.
  Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
  ISBN 0-201-63354-X.
  
 
  | 
Some of the advanced API features mentioned in these
TCP/IP books might not be supported. | 
 
Similar to the UNIX man command, Neutrino
presents a simple usage message for each command-line
utility. At the OS system prompt, type:
use utility_name
and you'll see a brief description as well as the
command-line options for that utility.
When working on your projects in the IDE's editor, whenever
you hover your mouse pointer over a function name in a line
of code, you'll see a popup text box containing that
function's purpose and synopsis (provided that it's a
documented Neutrino function).
For details, see the chapter on C/C++ development in the IDE User's Guide.
The QNX Software Systems website (http://www.qnx.com) offers help on using
the QNX Software Development Platform through such facilities as:
- detailed lists of supported hardware
  
 
- technical articles, white papers, web seminars, and other resources
 
- Licensing area, which gives details on product licensing
 
- Partners area, which includes lists of distributors and resellers
  around the world
  
  
 
- information about technical support
 
Our Foundry27 community website
(http://community.qnx.com)
includes:
- source code for the kernel, core networking, and more
  
  
  | 
  Some source code is available only to customers and partners with an
  approved QNX Restricted Content Application.
  To apply to see this code, download the Restricted Content Application Form
  from our website, fill it in, and then submit it to
  licensing@qnx.com.
  For more information, see the 
  Updated QNX Source Access Policy FAQ
  on Foundry27.
  
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- BSPs (Board Support Packages) 
  
 
- technical forums — members of the Neutrino user community at
  large as well as our own developers and staff frequent these forums daily
  
  
 
- and more
 
For general help with Eclipse, the open platform for our
IDE, visit the Eclipse consortium website (http://www.eclipse.org). 
There you'll find valuable support in the form of
newsgroups, mailing lists, articles, and more.
You can access a wide range of support resources, depending
on the particular support plan that you purchase.
For more information about our technical support offerings, including
email addresses and telephone numbers, please see the
Support section of our website
(http://www.qnx.com).
For more information about setting up your myQNX account and registering
your products and support plans, see
Accessing Online Technical Support.
There's a printed copy in the QNX Software Development Platform box,
and a PDF version on the DVD and on our website.
QNX training services offers many hands-on courses at your
choice of location (QNX headquarters, various training
centers around the world, or your site). For details,
including the current training schedule, see the Training
area in the Services section of our website
(http://www.qnx.com).
Depending on the nature of your particular project, you may
choose to engage us to help in areas
such as:
- custom BSPs
 
- device driver development
 
- hardware troubleshooting and integration 
 
- application development
 
- migration/porting services
 
For more information, see contact your local sales representative.