starter(1)
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starter Command
information about the DG/UX system for beginning users
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SYNTAX
[ help ] starter
DESCRIPTION
The DG/UX system Help Facility command starter provides three
categories of information about the DG/UX system to assist new
users.
The three categories are:
- commands a new user should learn first
- DG/UX system documents important for beginners
- local environment information
The user may choose one of the above categories by entering its
corresponding letter (given in the menu), or may exit to the
shell by typing q (for "quit"). When a category is chosen, the
user will receive one or more pages of information pertaining to
it.
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. If entered at any
other prompt level, only the prompt will be redrawn.
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(1), by adding the following line to your .profile file (see
profile(4)): "SCROLL=no export SCROLL" In the csh(1), 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 other Help Facility commands locate,
usage, glossary, and help) is located on their respective manual
pages.
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SEE ALSO
glossary(1), help(1), locate(1), csh(1), sh(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, 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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