I asked:
> Yes, VMS HELP.
> Help files for various DEC products (e.g. Fortran) come in VMS help
> format. It is a quite simple marked up text file format, and quite
> human-readable. On VMS there is a simple, but nice, browser for this
> format, called VMS HELP. I have verified that if you take this file
> over to a VMS system and put into a help library you can read it with
> VMS HELP. Now, is there a VMS help for Unix? (Incidentally, the built
> in help function in scu uses the same type of file).
I must learn to be more clear. I got lots of advice on how to use man-pages,
but that is not what I am after. If you have DEC Fortran, take a look at
/usr/lib/cmplrs/fort/decfortran.hlp, this file has this tree structure format
that can be browsed by VMS help. Of course, since it is a text file, it can
also be browsed with more or less, but...
I learnt that there is not any browser like this for dU, so I whipped together
my own in Perl (
http://www.physto.se/~simon/HELP/). It is not elegant, but it
works.
Btw, "various" above might be an overstatement, but there were a few surprises
when I grepped for '\.hlp' in the inventory files of my system.
Simon
Thanks to: tcantin_at_WELLESLEY.EDU, treahy_at_allianceelec.com,
Allan.SIMEONE_at_rp-rorer.com, alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Simon Tardell, voice +46 8 162688 fax +46 8 347817
Fysikum, Stockholms universitet simon_at_physto.se, simon_at_tardell.se
Received on Wed Oct 15 1997 - 08:09:45 NZDT