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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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