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.\" $Id: help.1,v 1.1 1997/10/30 03:51:56 gdr Exp $
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.\"
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.TH HELP 1 "19 October 1997" GNO "Commands and Applications"
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.SH NAME
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.BR help
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\- print ORCA help file
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.BR help
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.I program_name
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The ORCA/Shell expects all of its utilities to be in the
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directory specified by GS/OS prefix
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.BR 17 .
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The brief descriptions
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for these utilities (and for built-in commands) are kept in the
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directory
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.BR 17/help ,
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and are printed, under the ORCA/Shell, by the built-in command
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.BR help .
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.LP
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Because this shell built-in is not available under GNO, the
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.BR help
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program is used to access these description files. It is invoked in
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the same manner as under ORCA/Shell, but also provides pagination.
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.SH BUGS
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The GNO implementation of
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.BR help
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will only accept one
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.IR program_name .
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.LP
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.BR help
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is currently implemented as a very dumb
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.BR gsh (1)
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script. When
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.BR sh (1)
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becomes available,
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.BR help
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should be updated to accept multiple file names, recognise the
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.BR PAGER
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environment variable, and give cleaner diagnostics when
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.IR program_name
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does not have a description file in
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.BR 17/help .
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.SH HISTORY
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The
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.BR help
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program appeared in GNO v1.0 as an emulation of the ORCA/Shell built-in
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command.
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