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Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 17:42:01 EST
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From: aniekan@janus.usc.edu (Aniekan Akpaffiong)
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Subject: Implementations of user "Help" command.
Keywords: A jest in time will save your mind.
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Date: 18 Feb 87 22:41:58 GMT
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We are trying to standardize the way users get help on our systems.
We would appreciate hearing from anyone who has implemented a portable
and comprehensive user "help" command.  By portable I mean that I
should be able to run it on a VAX/VMS, VAX/UNIX and TOPS20 operating
systems with little modifications.

We want it to be very much like the VMS help format (ie with multiple
levels of help - topics and subtopics) but the Unix "man" program
has some attractive features that we would like to incorporate into
the program.

We would like to implement this on the following systems:

	Vax 11/750 running BSD Unix 4.2 and 4.3
	Vax 11/780 running BSD Unix 4.2 and 4.3
	VAX 11/750 running VMS 
	DECSYSTEM20 running TOPS20 
	SUN 3/xxx running Unix 3.20

If you have done this or have some ideas that would be helpful please
contact me directly at aniekan@janus.usc.edu