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     NAME
          help - Help Facility

     SYNOPSIS
            help
          [ help ] starter
          [ help ] usage [ -d ] [ -e ] [ -o ] [ command_name ]
          [ help ] locate [ keyword1 [ keyword2 ] ... ]
          [ help ] glossary [ term ]
            help sccs_command | sccs_message number

     DESCRIPTION
          The DG/UX system Help Facility provides on-line assistance
          for DG/UX system users, whether they desire general
          information about DG/UX or specific assistance for use of
          the Source Code Control System (SCCS) commands.

          Without arguments, help prints a menu of available on-line
          assistance commands with a short description of their
          functions.  The commands and their descriptions are:

               COMMAND       DESCRIPTION

               starter       Information about the DG/UX system for
                             the beginning user.

               locate        Locate DG/UX system commands using
                             function-related keywords.

               usage         DG/UX system command usage information.

               glossary      Definitions of DG/UX system technical
                             terms.

          The user may choose one of the above commands by entering
          its corresponding letter (given in the menu), or may quit
          and exit to the shell by typing q.

          With arguments, help directly invokes the named on-line
          assistance command, bypassing the initial help menu.  The
          commands starter, locate, usage, and glossary, optionally
          preceded by the word help, may also be specified at shell
          level.  When executing glossary from shell level, some of
          the symbols listed in the glossary must be escaped (preceded
          by one or more backslashes, ``\'') to be understood by the
          Help Facility.  For a list of symbols and how many
          backslashes to use for each, refer to the glossary(1) manual
          page.

          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



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          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), set the
          shell environment variable SCROLL to no.  In the Bourne
          shell, sh, do this 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 you prefer scrolling, set SCROLL to
          yes.

          Information on each of the Help Facility commands (starter,
          locate, usage, glossary, and help) is located on their
          respective manual pages.

          The Help Facility can be tailored to a customer's needs by
          use of the helpadm(1M) command.

          If the first argument to help is different from starter,
          usage, locate, or glossary, help assumes information is
          being requested about the SCCS facility.  The arguments may
          be either message numbers (which normally appear in
          parentheses following messages) or command names, of one of
          the following types:

          type1  Begins with non-numerics, ends in numerics.  The
                 non-numeric prefix is usually an abbreviation for the
                 program or set of routines which produced the message
                 (for example, ge3 for message 3 from the get
                 command).

          type2  Does not contain numerics (for example, a command,
                 such as get).

          type3  Is all numeric (for example, 212).

          If the first argument is not a true SCCS command or message
          number, the help main menu appears.

     EXAMPLES
          $ help get

          get:



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             get [-r<SID>] [-c<cutoff>] [-i<list>] [-x<list>] [-a<seq no.>]
                 [-k] [-e] [-l<p>] [-p] [-m] [-n] [-s] [-b] [-g] [-t] file ...
          $

          help with an argument that is an SCCS command will display
          usage of that command.

          $ help ge3

          ge3:
          "e not allowed with m"
          You can't use both the -e and -m arguments on the same get command.
          $

          help with an error number from an SCCS module will display
          text associated with that error number.

     SEE ALSO
          glossary(1), helpadm(1M), locate(1), csh(1), sh(1),
          starter(1), usage(1).
          admin(1), cdc(1), comb(1), delta(1), get(1), prs(1),
          rmdel(1), sact(1), sccsdiff(1), unget(1), val(1), vc(1),
          what(1), profile(4), sccsfile(4), term(5) in the
          Programmer's Reference for the DG/UX System.

     WARNINGS
          If the shell environment variable TERM (see sh(1) and
          csh(1)) is not set in the user's .profile file or .login
          file, TERM will default to the terminal value type 450 (a
          hard-copy device).  For a list of valid terminal types,
          refer to term(5).
























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