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.TH HELP 1 "19 October 1997" GNO "Commands and Applications"
.SH NAME
.BR help
\- print ORCA help file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR help
.I program_name
.SH DESCRIPTION
The ORCA/Shell expects all of its utilities to be in the
directory specified by GS/OS prefix
.BR 17 .
The brief descriptions
for these utilities (and for built-in commands) are kept in the
directory
.BR 17/help ,
and are printed, under the ORCA/Shell, by the built-in command
.BR help .
.LP
Because this shell built-in is not available under GNO, the
.BR help
program is used to access these description files.  It is invoked in
the same manner as under ORCA/Shell, but also provides pagination.
.SH BUGS
The GNO implementation of
.BR help
will only accept one
.IR program_name .
.LP
.BR help
is currently implemented as a very dumb
.BR gsh (1)
script.  When
.BR sh (1)
becomes available,
.BR help
should be updated to accept multiple file names, recognise the
.BR PAGER
environment variable, and give cleaner diagnostics when
.IR program_name
does not have a description file in
.BR 17/help .
.SH HISTORY
The
.BR help
program appeared in GNO v1.0 as an emulation of the ORCA/Shell built-in
command.