glossary(1)                         CLIX                         glossary(1)



  NAME

    glossary - Runs a UNIX System glossary program

  SYNOPSIS

    [help] glossary [term]

  DESCRIPTION

    The UNIX system Help Facility command glossary provides definitions of
    common technical terms and symbols.

    Without an argument, glossary displays a menu screen listing the terms and
    symbols that are currently included in glossary.  A user may choose one of
    the terms or may exit to the shell by typing q (for ``quit'').  When a
    term is selected, its definition is retrieved and displayed.  By selecting
    the appropriate menu choice, the list of terms and symbols can be
    redisplayed.

    The definition of a term may also be requested directly from shell level
    (as shown above), causing a definition to be retrieved and the list of
    terms and symbols not to be displayed.  Some of the symbols must be
    escaped if requested at shell level in order for the facility to
    understand the symbol.  The following is a table which list the symbols
    and their escape sequence.

                             SYMBOL   ESCAPE SEQUENCE
                               ""          \"\"
                               ''          \'\'
                               .            \\.
                               []          \[\]
                               ``          \`\`
                               #            \#
                               &            \&
                               *            \*
                               \            \\
                               |            \|

    From any screen in the Help Facility, a user may execute a command with
    the shell (sh) by typing a ! and the command to be executed.  The screen
    will be redrawn if the command that was executed was entered at a first
    level prompt.  If entered at any other prompt level, only the prompt will
    be redrawn.

    By default, the Help Facility scrolls the data that is presented to the
    user.  If you prefer to have the screen clear before displaying the data
    (nonscrolling), the shell variable $SCROLL must be set to no and exported
    so it will become part of your environment.  This is done by adding the
    following line to your .profile file (see profile): ``export SCROLL ;
    SCROLL=no''.  If you later decide that scrolling is desired, $SCROLL must



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  glossary(1)                         CLIX                         glossary(1)



    be set to yes.

    Information on each of the Help Facility commands (starter, locate, usage,
    glossary, and help) is located on their respective manual pages.

  EXAMPLES

    1.  To get a definition of the term ``baud rate'', enter the following:

        glossary baud rate


  CAUTIONS

    If the shell variable $TERM (see sh) is not set in the user's .profile
    file, then $TERM will default to the terminal value type 450 (a hard-copy
    terminal).  For a list of valid terminal types, refer to term.

  EXIT VALUES

    None

  RELATED INFORMATION

    Commands:  help(1), locate(1), sh(1), starter(1), usage(1), helpadm(8)

    Miscellany:  term(4)



























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