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1.1     ! root        1: .TI GENERAL
        !             2: Introduction to Help
        !             3: .sp 2
        !             4: The Unix "help" command displays documentation on various topics.
        !             5: If you type
        !             6: 
        !             7:        help
        !             8: 
        !             9: from the Unix shell, you will see a list of the major topics that
        !            10: help knows about and a set of instructions for perusing them.
        !            11: If one of the topics were "topic", you could skip directly to
        !            12: information relating to "topic" by typing
        !            13: 
        !            14:        help topic
        !            15: 
        !            16: from the shell, and after seeing the documentation you would be
        !            17: returned directly to the shell.
        !            18: 
        !            19: The help topics are intended to provide Unix documentation
        !            20: written for inexperienced users, as well as coverage of various
        !            21: non-standard features of the local Unix system.
        !            22: 
        !            23: Another command that displays on-line information is "man",
        !            24: which shows you the section from the Unix Programmer's Manual
        !            25: for a particular command or system feature.
        !            26: The documentation it produces is terse and difficult, and,
        !            27: if used correctly, comprehensive.
        !            28: To see the manual page for the "ls" command, for example, type
        !            29: 
        !            30:        man ls
        !            31: 
        !            32: Help has several indexes in which to look for subjects you request.
        !            33: They help you locate references to help, man, and off-line documentation.
        !            34: To find out briefly what each topic is about, type "index_help"
        !            35: (no quotation marks) as a topic.

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