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Annotation of 40BSD/cmd/help.sh, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: echo 'Look in a printed manual if you can for general help.  You should
                      2: have someone show you some things and then read one of the tutorial papers
                      3: (e.g. UNIX for Beginners or An Introduction to the C Shell) to get started.
                      4: 
                      5: The commands:
                      6:        man -k keyword          lists commands relevant to keyword
                      7:        man command             prints out the manual for a command
                      8: are helpful; other basic commands are:
                      9:        cat             - concatenates files (and just prints them out)
                     10:        ex              - text editor
                     11:        finger          - user information lookup program
                     12:        ls              - list contents of directory
                     13:        mail            - send and receive mail
                     14:        msgs            - system messages and junk mail program
                     15:        passwd          - change login password
                     16:        tset            - set terminal modes
                     17:        who             - who is on the system
                     18:        write           - write to another user
                     19: You could find programs about mail by the command:     man -k mail
                     20: And print out the mail command documentation via:      man mail
                     21: 
                     22: You can logout by typing a control-d (if your prompt is $)
                     23: or by typing ``logout'\'\'' if your prompt is %.'

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