2020-08-18 07:23:30 +00:00
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help | ? -- display command information
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syntax: help [string]
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ex: help
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?
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help topics
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?cat
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'help' or '?' alone prints a list of built-in commands.
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'help' or '?' followed by a command name or topic prints information
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on that command or topic. Type "help topics" for a list of available
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help topics.
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It is not necessary to put a blank after the '?' command.
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Note about ALIASES: 'help' doesn't currently understand aliases.
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To get help on a "command" like "dir" (really an alias for 'cat')
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you have to type "help cat" (or "?cat"), not "help dir". ['Help'
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may be more intelligent about aliases in a future version of Davex;
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for now, you'll have to type "alias" to see what the real name for
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your command is.]
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To save disk space, most of the help files have been compressed and
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included in the file "indexed.help" in the help directory. The
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help directory is normally %help, but the 'config' command can be
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used to put the help somewhere else. When you ask for help on a
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given topic, 'help' always looks for a file with the same name in
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the help directory before consulting the indexed help file.
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(see also: config, "help topics")
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