problems with NQS 'help' command

Steve Dempsey sdempsey at UCSD.EDU
Wed Jan 30 07:41:16 AEST 1991


software:	NQS 1.0
os version:	3.3.1
model:		4D/340VGX

The NQS documentation frequently urges the reader to invoke the online help
command in order to obtain useful info that is not documented anywhere else.
When I invoke the NQS queue manager 'qmgr' and ask for help, I get the 
following garbage as output:
-----------------
sdchemi3[5] qmgr
Mgr: help
o adding schedctl() and sysmp()

Revision 1.1  89/11/17  16:18:24  bh
iniitial revision

 *
 */

Mgr: 
------------------
What gets printed is the end of the RCS revision history at the beginning
of the file /usr/lib/nqs/qmgr.hlp.  Attempts to get help on specific NQS
qmgr commands result in seemingly random displays of unrelated portions of
this file.  Is it a problem with the help file or the qmgr program?

Here is the front end of the help file I received:
/*++ qmgr.hlp - Network queueing System
 *
 * $Source: /jake/att/usr/src/cmd/nqs/qmgr/RCS/qmgr.hlp,v $
 *
 * DESCRIPTION: 
 *
 *	NQS Qmgr help file.
 *
 *	Author:
 *	-------
 *	Brent A. Kingsbury, Sterling Software Incorporated.
 *	September 9, 1985.
 *
 *
 * STANDARDS VIOLATIONS:
 *	None.
 *
 * REVISION HISTORY: ($Revision: 1.10 $ $Date: 90/06/26 08:57:10 $ $State: Exp $)
 * $Log:	qmgr.hlp,v $
Revision 1.10  90/06/26  08:57:10  bh
fixed minor grammatical error, and reference to 'help network'

Revision 1.9  90/06/12  14:59:16  bh
minor cleanup

Revision 1.8  90/03/20  10:33:30  bh
more tersification

Revision 1.7  90/03/19  16:23:21  bh
removed help on delete request

Revision 1.6  90/03/19  15:05:09  bh
folded all upper/lower cmd stuff to all lower case
lots of little corrections and tersification

Revision 1.5  90/02/27  17:17:03  bh
fixed problem with seT_NICLIM

Revision 1.4  90/02/20  17:35:34  bh
changes for new limits in 3.3

Revision 1.3  89/12/20  08:54:57  bh
added set globalrun

Revision 1.2  89/12/15  13:25:39  bh
additions related to adding schedctl() and sysmp()

Revision 1.1  89/11/17  16:18:24  bh
iniitial revision

 *
 */

#HELP

	The available commands are:

	  abort     add       create    delete    disable   enable
	  exit      help      lock      purge     qsetenv   set
          show      shutdown  start     stop      unlock

	To obtain more information about a command, type:

	  help <command-name>

	Each command can usually abbreviated.  Long lines can be split into
	multiple lines by using a "\" at the end of a partial command line.
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