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Reading documentation ON-LINE (HELP) The Athena On-Line Help system (OLH), an extensive collection of Athena-related documents, is accessible via the World Wide Web (WWW). To access OLH from an Athena workstation, just type help at your athena% prompt (or select the On Line Help option from the Help on Athena submenu of the Dash Help menu). This presents the Athena OLH home page in an appropriate WWW browser. This includes almost all the documents available for sale at CopyTech, plus many other documents that are only available online. The help command displays the Athena OLH home page in an appropriate WWW browser. If you already have a browser open, you don't need to type help, you can go directly to URL: http://web.mit.edu/olh/ If you are logged into an Athena workstation, OLH opens a graphical browser (Netscape) that takes advantage of the X Window System. If you have only a single window (e.g., if you are dialing into Athena or have logged into an Athena machine remotely using telnet), OLH opens a text-only browser (lynx). You can have OLH explicitly use the text-only version even on a workstation by specifying the -tty switch when you call the command: help -tty The plain-text version saves you computer memory, but cannot display any images or OLH documents which require an X display (e.g., dvi versions of LaTeX documents). Once the menu appears, you just click on the topic you are interested in (in the X version), or use the tab key to get to the topic in the plain-text version, then press return. OLH offers many useful features, including: - various ways to navigate around the menu tree - the ability to print or copy a module of information - pointers to related documents on the Web - the ability to search for topics by keyword |
