glossary(1)
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glossary Command
definitions of common DG/UX system terms and symbols
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SYNTAX
[ help ] glossary [ term ]
DESCRIPTION
The DG/UX system Help Facility command glossary provides
definitions of common technical terms and symbols.
Without an argument, glossary displays a menu screen listing the
terms and symbols that are currently included in glossary. A user
may choose one of the terms or may exit to the shell by typing q
(for "quit"). When a term is selected, its definition is
retrieved and displayed. By selecting the appropriate menu
choice, the list of terms and symbols can be redisplayed.
A term's definition may also be requested directly from shell
level (as shown above), causing a definition to be retrieved and
the list of terms and symbols not to be displayed. Some of the
symbols must be escaped if requested at shell level in order for
the facility to understand the symbol. The following is a table
that lists the symbols and their escape sequences.
SYMBOL SH(1) ESCAPE SEQUENCE
"" \"\"
'' \'\'
[] \\[\\]
`` \`\`
# \#
& \&
* \*
\ \\\\
| \|
When invoking glossary(1) from the csh, the escape sequences are
the same as in the sh(1), except for the square brackets ([]).
The escape sequence for [] is \[\].
From any screen in the Help Facility, a user may execute a
command via the shell (sh(1)) by typing a ! and the command to be
executed. The screen will be redrawn if the command that was
executed was entered at a first level prompt of the Help
facility. If entered at any other prompt level, only the prompt
will be redrawn.
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By default, the Help Facility scrolls the data that is presented
to the user. If you prefer to have the screen clear before
printing the data (non-scrolling), the shell environment variable
SCROLL must be set to no. This is done in the Bourne shell, sh,
by adding the following line to your .profile file (see
profile(4)): "SCROLL=no"; "export SCROLL". In the csh, add the
following line to your .login file: "setenv SCROLL no". If you
later decide that scrolling is desired, SCROLL must be set to
yes.
Information on each of the Help Facility commands (starter,
locate, usage, glossary, and help) is located on their respective
manual pages.
SEE ALSO
help(1), helpadm(1M), locate(1), csh(1), sh(1), starter(1),
usage(1).
term(5) in the Programmer's Reference for the DG/UX System.
WARNINGS
If the shell variable TERM (see sh(1)) is not set in the user's
.profile file or .login, then TERM will default to the terminal
value type 450 (a hard-copy terminal). For a list of valid
terminal types, refer to term(5).
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