About this book

This book contains the release notes and installation instructions for jConnect^[TM] for JDBC[TM] version 6.05.

Audience

This book is for any person installing or configuring jConnect for JDBC 6.05. It is also for programmers who are designing applications for use directly with jConnect.

How to use this book

The information in this book is organized as follows:

"About This Book" introduces jConnect for JDBC and points to other sources of product information and technical assistance.
Chapter 1, "Installing jConnect for JDBC" provides system requirements and detailed instructions for installing the product.
Chapter 2, "Using jConnect Documentation" provides information on the documentation set for this product.

Other sources of information

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Select EBFs/Maintenance. If prompted, enter your MySybase user name and password.

Select a product.

Specify a time frame and click Go. A list of EBF/Maintenance releases is displayed.

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Click the Info icon to display the EBF/Maintenance report, or click the product description to download the software.

Conventions

The conventions used in this book are shown in Table 1.

Table 1: Conventions
Key	Definition
command	Command, method, and utility names are shown in a bold font. Bold is also used for emphasis.
variable	Variables, or words that stand for values you fill in, are shown in italics. File names are also shown in italics.
user input	Values that you enter are shown in a bold monospaced font.
computer output	Computer output is shown in a regular monospaced font.

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You might need to configure your accessibility tool for optimal use. Some screen readers pronounce text based on its case; for example, they pronounce ALL UPPERCASE TEXT as initials, and MixedCase Text as words. You might find it helpful to configure your tool to announce syntax conventions. Consult the documentation for your tool.

For information about how Sybase supports accessibility, see Sybase Accessibility . The Sybase Accessibility site includes links to information on Section 508 and W3C standards.

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