ARPUS/ce, Version 2.6.2 (03/10/05) (SCCS 1.10) _______________________________________________________________________________ help : getting started using the Ce helps You most likely got to this help screen by pressing the "help" (F9) key and then pressing enter in response to the prompt. The help key is set up by ce_init to prompt for a topic and then execute a cv command with $CEHELPDIR/<topic>.hlp as the argument. This pops a new window with the help text in it. To find information about a particular Ce command, press the "help" (F9) key and type the name of the command (such as kd or au) at the prompt. Help files come in two flavors. Commands and concepts. Each of the Ce commands has a help file which describes what it does and all it's parameters. There is also a help file for the ce command itself which describes all the options and X resources used by Ce. The other type of help is the concept help. These are short monographs about Ce topics which are not directly related to commands. For example, how to use windows and how to use paste buffer are topics in this type of help. At the bottom of each help file are a list of related help files. The rightmost string on this line is the path to the help file. This allows the user to click (usually with mouse 1) on the file name and bring up the help for that file. The help for 'commands' gives a one line summary of all the Ce commands and includes a help path to click on for that command. It also contains a list of all the concept helps. When trying to figure out how to do something, this is a good place to start. If you like having help pages pop up and would like regular manual pages to work that way, you can use one of the following two techniques. 1. In your .profile, PAGER="cv -man" export PAGER. 2. If your version of man does not use the PAGER variable, create a shell script called man in your personal bin which calls the real man command (with a fully qualified path) and pipes it into ce. For example: /usr/ucb/man $* | cv -man RELATED HELP FILES: intro (Introduction to Ce) commands (List of Commands) keyboard (common keys) ce (Create Edit) ceterm (terminal window) xresources (X resources & args) regionsCon (region description) curswinCon (Cursor/window Concepts) keyCon (Key Concepts) LinuxCon Using Ce on Linux support (customer support) _______________________________________________________________________________ Copyright (c) 2005, Robert Styma Consulting. All rights reserved.