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Subject:UN*X Help From:David Slonosky <SlonoskD -at- ITLS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 18 Jun 1998 11:02:38 -0400
I was curious as to the current methods of help delivery for UNIX
systems, and to the degree of variation between flavors of UNIX.
Here's the current rough list I've made up. Any additions or corrections
to this list would be appreciated.
1. man format
2. info format
3. HTML-based help
4. Solaris Answerbook(?)
It seems that all help in UNIX systems is very text-based. I've sent a
request to the folks who make the RTF to UNIX X-Window conversion tool,
so I am aware of that possibility. NetHelp from Netscape would have
offered an interesting choice if they'd kept it up. And of course there
is JavaHelp from Sun, which I have yet to fully investigate. (i.e. I
have the help system and the Java beta on my system but haven't found
time to play with it all yet.)
David Slonosky
Documentation Specialist
InterTrans Logistics Solutions, an i2 company
