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NAME
     index - help index

DESCRIPTION
                             HELP LIBRARY STRUCTURE


                                  HELP-+-->  any_command_name
                                   |   |-->  some_topic
                                   |
           +------------------+----+---------+-------------+
           |                  |              |             |
           |                  |              |             |
           V                  V              V             V
         SHELL               DM           INDEX        COMMANDS
        (info)             (info)      (this file) (alphabetical)
           |                  |
           |              +---+-----+----------+
           |              |         |          |
           V              V         V          V
        COMMANDS        KEYS      RANGE    COMMANDS
     (topical index)  (definition)      (topical index)



                                INDEX OF HELP COMMANDS


       Help is available in the following areas:

       FOR INFORMATION ON:                          TYPE:

         .  An introduction to help                   help

         .  An alphabetical list of shell             help commands
            and DM commands

         .  Logging on to the system                  help login

         .  Logging off the system                    help lo

         .  Documentation available at the            help manuals
            current release


       The shell

         .  An explanation of the shell,              help shell
            how to enter a shell command, and a
            description of the shell command
            format

         .  A directory of shell commands             help shell commands
            arranged by topic

         .  A summary or input/output redirection     help shell i_o
            characters

         .  A list of common nouns that frequently    help command nouns
            appear in shell commands

         .  A list of common verbs that frequently    help command verbs
            appear in shell commands

         .  Detailed information on a                 help command_name
            specific shell command                    (or command_name -help)

         .  A brief description of a specific         command_name -usage
            command and its format

         .  The software version number of a          command_name -version
            specific command

         .  Using pathname in shell commands          help pathname

         .  An explanation of wildcards, the          help wildcards
            use of a wildcard in place of a
            pathname, and rules for wildcard
            construction

         .  Using the shell command line              help cl
            parser

         .  shell command date-time syntax            help datetime

         .  The regular expression syntax             help patterns
            used for pattern-matching


       The Display Manager

         .  The Display Manager                       help dm

         .  A directory of DM commands                help dm commands
            arranged by topic

         .  Detailed information on a                 help command_name
            specific DM command

         .  An explanation of special                 help dm keys
            function keys used by the DM

         .  Defining a range for DM operations        help dm range

         .  A list of DM pad calls                    help syscalls pad

         .  Window creation and manipulation          help windows

         .  Standard character fonts                  help fonts
            supplied with each node

         .  Standard icon characters                  help icons
            supplied with each node


       Protection

         .  General information on object             help protection
            protection

         .  Access control lists (specifying          help protection acls
            who can access an object)

         .  A list of commands used with ACLS         help acls

         .  Access rights to objects                  help protection rights

         .  An explanation of protected               help protection
            subsystems (defining how files             protected_subs
            can be accessed)

         .  A list of commands used to                help protected_subsystems
            create protected subsystems

         .  Subject identifier syntax                 help protection sids
            and usage


       Peripheral Device Control

         .  Processes that provide local              help servers
            and/or network access to a
            resource

         .  The process that controls the             help prsvr
            printing of files

         .  Print server configuration                help prsvr config
            directives

         .  Print server device drivers               help prsvr device_drivers

         .  Printers supported on an                  help printer
            Apollo node

         .  Using magnetic tape in the                help magtape
            Domain system

         .  Generating the volume ID                  help magtape volid
            for labeled tapes

         .  Using cartridge tape in the               help cartridge
            Domain system


       Miscellaneous

         .  Maximum values for various                help limits
            system features and services

         .  Configuring a diskless node               help diskless

         .  The syntax and commands used              help ed commands
            by the line-mode editor

         .  A summary of edstr commands               help edstr commands

         .  A summary of fmt formatting               help fmt commands
            directives

         .  The mailbox manager                       help mbx

         .  The Store and Forward server              help sf_helper

         .  A list of system calls                    help syscalls

         .  A list of system calls available          help syscalls module_name
            for a specific module