starter(1) DG/UX 5.4R3.00 starter(1)
NAME
starter - information for beginning users
SYNOPSIS
[ 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.
- Documents that are 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 the user may quit and
exit to the shell by typing q. 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), set the shell environment variable SCROLL to
no. Do this 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 you prefer scrolling, set SCROLL to yes.
Information on each of the other Help Facility commands (locate,
usage, glossary, and help) is located on their respective manual
pages.
SEE ALSO
glossary(1), help(1), locate(1), csh(1), sh(1), usage(1).
term(5).
NOTES
If the shell variable TERM [see sh(1)] is not set in the user's
.profile file, TERM defaults to the terminal value type 450 (a hard-
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copy terminal). For a list of valid terminal types, refer to
term(5).
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