Solaris

I am learning UNIX through the School of Hard Knocks, I have very limited exposure to it.
I managed to install Solaris 10 on my machine recently, and have downloaded and installed Sun Studio 11. When the installation of Sun Studio was complete, the GUI displayed the following:
(Bourne shells)
$PATH = opt/SUNWspro/bin : $ PATH; export PATH
(C shells)
% setenv PATH /opt/SUNWspro/bin: $ PATH

I am at a loss as to where or how to edit the PATH, and am not sure about how to set the environment either. If anyone can point me in the right direction (and get me back on the PATH), it would greatly be appreciated.

It was telling you to set the PATH to contain /opt/SUNWspro/bin so the commands would be availabe without having to type in /opt/SUNWspro/bin/xxxcommand or whatever command you were looking to run as part of that package.

Bourne shells (/bin/sh or /bin/ksh) use $PATH=/opt/SUNWspro/bin:$PATH; export PATH to set the SUNWspro bin directory in your PATH. Bin directories usually contain binary files (programs, executables). If your prompt is a $, then you probably have sh or ksh as your shell (you can tell by doing echo $SHELL)

And then for C shells, the command is a little bit different (as shown above).

To set it up that you don't have to type it every time you sign in, check which shell you use, and then edit the appropriate startup file in your home directory. Csh - add it to .login, Bourne shell - add it to your .profile

RTM,
Thanks for the response. I haven't had the chance to try out what you posted, but as soon as I have some time, I will give it a try and let you know how it went.
Again,
thank you.

I understand that it is telling me to change the PATH to what is listed; however, I am unsure as to where I am to find these files that need to be edited. I can't seem to locate the ".login" and ".profile" files. Like I mentioned before, I am learning this the hard way
Also, my prompt appears as a "#", and I am having an issue remembering how to change between "$" and "#" and back again (just a mental block on my part. I can do it at work, but at home, it doesn't make it through the front door with me).
Thanks for your help.

I think that I brought this little tid-bit of information home with me the other day...
# appears when I am logged in as "root"
"$" and "%" appear when I am logged in as a "user"
(Like I said, mental block on my part)

Now all I have to do is find where the ".login" and ".profile" files are hiding at. I've tried using "ls -la" to locate them (in the most obvious directories), but so far haven't been able to find them. Can I use a find command with the filename to locate them?

Thanks.

The .login, .profile files are in each user's home directory - ls -a should show if the files are there or not (they aren't mandatory files - they may need to be created - just keep the permissions at 600 {see chmod man page}).

There are system profile files in /etc (on Solaris) - if your changes are required to be system wide, then look at /etc/profile and /etc/.login - see the man page for login.

[QUOTE=RTM]The .login, .profile files are in each user's home directory - ls -a should show if the files are there or not (they aren't mandatory files - they may need to be created - just keep the permissions at 600 {see chmod man page}).[QUOTE]
I just recently had the time to create a new user account. I think that part of the problem was that I was trying to do this (modify the files) under "root" (?).
I checked to see if there were .login and .profile for my new user account, they are there, but I have not had time to edit them. I will let you know what happens. Thanks again for all the help.