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Subject: How does (vms) help use ?
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Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 08:27:00 EDT
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I'm new to vms programming so forgive if this question has an obvious
answer. Simply point me to the documentation...

The vms help program uses the ? (question-mark) key in a special way.
Immediately after the ? key is pressed, help proceeds to display the
current help page, which usually has an index of help subtopics. Can
someone show me how a program could do that, set up certain keys to
cause interrupts (or whatever you call them in vms land)? Thanks.

On the side, I've always wondered why help couldn't read what was on
the input line before the ? instead of throwing it away... Or why couldn't
DCL do a similar thing ala TOPS-20... Just a thought.

George Boyce, Academic Computing, Cornell Computer Services
george@vax1.ccs.cornell.edu (128.84.252.10)
george@crnlcs.bitnet