STARTER(1) (Help Utilities) STARTER(1)
NAME
starter - information about the system for beginning users
SYNOPSIS
[ help ] starter
DESCRIPTION
The Help Facility command starter provides five categories
of information about the system to assist new users.
The five categories are:
- commands a new user should learn first
- documents important for beginners
- education centers offering courses
- local environment information
- on-line teaching aids
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
variable SCROLL must be set to no and exported so it will
become part of your environment. This is done by adding the
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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
glossary(1), help(1), locate(1), sh(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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