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NAME
     glossary - definitions of common UNIX system terms and sym-
     bols

SYNOPSIS
     [ help ] glossary [ term ]

DESCRIPTION
     The UNIX system 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 glos-
     sary. 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
     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



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     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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