GLOSSARY(1) (Help Utilities) GLOSSARY(1)
NAME
glossary - definitions of terms and symbols
SYNOPSIS
[ help ] glossary [ term ]
DESCRIPTION
The 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 which list the symbols and
their escape sequence.
SYMBOL ESCAPE SEQUENCE
"" \"\"
'' \'\'
[] \\[\\]
`` \`\`
# \#
& \&
* \*
\ \\\\
| \|
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), the shell
variable SCROLL must be set to no and exported so it will
become part of your environment. This is done by adding the
following line to your .profile file (see profile(4)):
``export SCROLL ; 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), sh(1), starter(1),
usage(1).
term(5) in the Programmer's Reference Manual.
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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