unix help routines
Neal Ziring
nz at wucs.UUCP
Sun Jun 1 00:15:13 AEST 1986
In article <2668 at teddy.UUCP> jpn at teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
> > I am interested in help routines for the unix system.
> > ...
> > What I am interested in is a menu driven help routine similar
> > to VMS help.
>
> There is just such a program in the mod.sources archive. It is
> touted as being a VMS help-like program. (Volume 3, titled "help")
> No, I cannot mail out copies.
>
> John P. Nelson, Moderator, mod.sources
Hi -- I am still improving and maintaining help(1wu) here at Washington
University, and I would be glad to mail a copy of the source (not the
help texts themselves, they're too big) to anyone who really wants them.
The newest version of help (version 1.9) supports the following neat
features:
- ^D help topic completion listing
- ESC help topic abbreviation fill-in
- invisible apologies for unavailable stuff
- user-transparent cross-references
- sane abbreviation processing (fixed from 1.6)
Users at WU have used help for over a year now, and they like it.
If anybody wants help enough to mail me a tape, you can have the sources,
RCS files, and the entire help tree (currently about 550 Kbytes).
[Note to mod.sources moderator: Mr. Nelson, do you think I should post
the improved version of help to mod.sources?]
--
...nz (Neal Ziring at WU ECL - we're here to provide superior computing.)
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-- Employee of London Electricity Board, 1959
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