Museum

NAME
index - help index

DESCRIPTION
                        HELP LIBRARY STRUCTURE


                             HELP-+-->  any_command_name
                              |   |-->  some_topic
                              |
      +------------------+----+---------+-------------+
      |                  |              |             |
      |                  |              |             |
      V                  V              V             V
    SHELL               DM           INDEX        COMMANDS
   (info)             (info)      (this file) (alphabetical)
      |                  |
      |              +---+-----+----------+
      |              |         |          |
      V              V         V          V
   COMMANDS        KEYS      RANGE    COMMANDS
(topical index)  (definition)      (topical index)



                           INDEX OF HELP COMMANDS


  Help is available in the following areas:

  FOR INFORMATION ON:                          TYPE:

    .  An introduction to help                   help

    .  An alphabetical list of shell             help commands
       and DM commands

    .  Logging on to the system                  help login

    .  Logging off the system                    help lo

    .  Documentation available at the            help manuals
       current release


  The shell

    .  An explanation of the shell,              help shell
       how to enter a shell command, and a
       description of the shell command
       format

    .  A directory of shell commands             help shell commands
       arranged by topic

    .  A summary or input/output redirection     help shell i_o
       characters

    .  A list of common nouns that frequently    help command nouns
       appear in shell commands

    .  A list of common verbs that frequently    help command verbs
       appear in shell commands

    .  Detailed information on a                 help command_name
       specific shell command                    (or command_name -help)

    .  A brief description of a specific         command_name -usage
       command and its format

    .  The software version number of a          command_name -version
       specific command

    .  Using pathname in shell commands          help pathname

    .  An explanation of wildcards, the          help wildcards
       use of a wildcard in place of a
       pathname, and rules for wildcard
       construction

    .  Using the shell command line              help cl
       parser

    .  shell command date-time syntax            help datetime

    .  The regular expression syntax             help patterns
       used for pattern-matching


  The Display Manager

    .  The Display Manager                       help dm

    .  A directory of DM commands                help dm commands
       arranged by topic

    .  Detailed information on a                 help command_name
       specific DM command

    .  An explanation of special                 help dm keys
       function keys used by the DM

    .  Defining a range for DM operations        help dm range

    .  A list of DM pad calls                    help calls

    .  Window creation and manipulation          help windows

    .  Standard character fonts                  help fonts
       supplied with each node

    .  Standard icon characters                  help icons
       supplied with each node


  Protection

    .  General information on object             help protection
       protection

    .  Access control lists (specifying          help protection acls
       who can access an object)

    .  A list of commands used with ACLS         help acls

    .  Access rights to objects                  help protection rights

    .  An explanation of protected               help protection
       subsystems (defining how files             protected_subs
       can be accessed)

    .  A list of commands used to                help protected_subsystems
       create protected subsystems

    .  Subject identifier syntax                 help protection sids
       and usage


  Peripheral Device Control

    .  Processes that provide local              help servers
       and/or network access to a
       resource

    .  The process that controls the             help prsvr
       printing of files

    .  Print server configuration                help prsvr config
       directives

    .  Print server device drivers               help prsvr device_drivers

    .  Printers supported on an                  help printer
       Apollo node

    .  Using magnetic tape in the                help magtape
       Domain system

    .  Generating the volume ID                  help magtape volid
       for labeled tapes

    .  Using cartridge tape in the               help cartridge
       Domain system


  Miscellaneous

    .  Maximum values for various                help limits
       system features and services

    .  Configuring a diskless node               help diskless

    .  The syntax and commands used              help ed commands
       by the line-mode editor

    .  A summary of edstr commands               help edstr commands

    .  A summary of fmt formatting               help fmt commands
       directives

    .  The mailbox manager                       help mbx

    .  The Store and Forward server              help sf_helper

    .  A list of system calls                    help syscalls

    .  A list of system calls available          help syscalls module_name
       for a specific module