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From: nz@wucs.UUCP (Neal Ziring)
Newsgroups: net.wanted,net.sources.d,net.unix
Subject: Re: unix help routines
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Date: Sat, 31-May-86 10:15:13 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 31 10:15:13 1986
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In article <2668@teddy.UUCP> jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
 > > I am interested in help routines for the unix system.
 > >  ...
 > > What I am interested in is a menu driven help routine similar
 > > to VMS help.
 > 
 > There is just such a program in the mod.sources archive.  It is
 > touted as being a VMS help-like program.  (Volume 3, titled "help")
 > No, I cannot mail out copies.
 > 
 > John P. Nelson, Moderator, mod.sources

Hi -- I am still improving and maintaining help(1wu) here at Washington
University, and I would be glad to mail a copy of the source (not the
help texts themselves, they're too big) to anyone who really wants them.
The newest version of help (version 1.9) supports the following neat
features:
		- ^D help topic completion listing
		- ESC help topic abbreviation fill-in
		- invisible apologies for unavailable stuff
		- user-transparent cross-references
		- sane abbreviation processing (fixed from 1.6)

Users at WU have used help for over a year now, and they like it.
If anybody wants help enough to mail me a tape, you can have the sources,
RCS files, and the entire help tree (currently about 550 Kbytes).

[Note to mod.sources moderator: Mr. Nelson, do you think I should post
the improved version of help to mod.sources?]
-- 
...nz (Neal Ziring at WU ECL  -  we're here to provide superior computing.)

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