Function HE - Help System

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# Function HE - Help System

Com-plete provides an online help facility that allows you to display information about the main Com-plete functions. Help texts can consist of Com-plete-supplied help data or installation-supplied help information.

If you select the HE function from the UUTIL menu, the help selection menu is displayed:

    09:48:08        TID     2           COM-5.1.          User MBE          22.04.97
     System: Lcl *                ---  HELP  menu  ---                          UHE0

     Subject..........................  Fc     Subject..........................  Fc
     ---------------------------------  --     ---------------------------------  --
     Com-plete Utilities .............   1     COM-PASS Main Menu ..............  13
                                         2     COM-PASS utility menus ..........  14
                                         3     COM-PASS security system ........  15
                                         4     COM-PASS parallel transactions ..  16
                                         5     COM-PASS recovering edit sessions  17
                                         6     COM-PASS message switching ......  18
                                         7                                        19
                                         8                                        20
                                         9                                        21
                                        10                                        22
                                        11                                        23
                                        12                                        24

                                Please select an item:

     Enter-PF1---PF2---PF3---PF4---PF5---PF6---PF7---PF8---PF9---PF10--PF11--PF12---
                       End                     bwd   fwd                     Quit

To select a topic on which you wish to see help, type its number in the input field labeled Please select an item and press ENTER.

The option Com-plete Utilities displays a list of utilities on which there is help available:

    13:36:04        TID     6            COM-5.1.         User SAGAWW       05/21/97
     System: Lcl 8                ---  HELP  menu  ---                          UHE0
     Subject..........................  Fc     Subject..........................  Fc
     ---------------------------------  --     ---------------------------------  --
     UDS - Disk Space handling (OS) ..   1     ULIB - Online Pgmlib handling ...  13
     UPDS - Dataset Maintenance (OS) .   2     UM - Msg switching (direct cmnds)  14
     UEDIT - The fullscreen Editor ...   3                                        15
     UED - Line Editor ...............   4                                        16
     UMAP - Online map maintenance ...   5                                        17
     UCTLUT - System Control Utilities   6                                        18
                                         7                                        19
                                         8                                        20
                                         9                                        21
                                        10                                        22
                                        11                                        23
                                        12                                        24
                                Please select an item:  0
     Enter-PF1---PF2---PF3---PF4---PF5---PF6---PF7---PF8---PF9---PF10--PF11--PF12---
                       End                     bwd   fwd                     Quit

You can also display help for most of the listed utilities by calling the help function or entering a question mark (?) from within that utility.

In addition to multiple screens summarizing each utility, a glossary may be provided that defines the terms used on the help screens and gives a description of the syntax.

To return to the previous help level, press PF3 from any screen. To leave the help facility from any help screen, press PF12.