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XEROX HELPSYS
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HELPSYS
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By: Doug Cutting (Cutting.PA@Xerox.COM)
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Uses: DINFO, HASH
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This document last edited on October 7, 1987.
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INTRODUCTION
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HelpSys is the interface to the online version of the Interlisp-D Reference Manual. It provides both sequential perusal of the manual and random access lookup and display of index entries.
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Interlisp-D Reference Manual DInfo Graph
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Helpsys uses the DInfo library package as a means of accessing the Interlisp-D Reference Manual. Once you have loaded Helpsys, selecting DInfo from the Background Menu will raise a menu which will contain an item named Interlisp-D Reference Manual. Selecting this item will start DInfo on the DInfo graph for the manual. (Note: IRM.HOST&DIR must be set correctly beforeÿÿ H e l p S y s w i l l w o r k ; s e e I n s t a l l i n g H e l p S y s , b e l o w ) .ÿ See the documentation for DInfo for more information on this package.
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?<cr> [EXEC macro]
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Helpsys enables the EXEC and TEXEC macro ?<cr>. Typing this (a question-mark followed by a carriage-return) will cause the CAR of the form currently being typed to be looked up. This works much like the more familiar ?=<cr> macro which displays arguement lists.
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Lookup! [DInfo Command]
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Selecting Lookup! from DInfo's menu in the IRM DInfo Graph will prompt for and look up a term.
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INSTALLING HELPSYS
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Helpsys requires a number of files which should be provided with the LispUsers release. These are the 31 chapter files (CHAP*.TEDIT) the top node file (IRMTOP.TEDIT), the file containing the DINFOGRAPH (IRM.DINFOGRAPH) and the index hash file ( IRM.HASHFILE).
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To install HELPSYS you must copy all these files to one directory, and set the variable IRM.HOST&DIR to the name of this directory.
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IRM.HOST&DIR [Variable]
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This determines where HelpSys will look for the manual files and hash file. This should be set in your site init file. As file servers can often be quite loaded down, HelpSys will work much faster if you cache these files on the local disk.
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IRM.HASHFILE.NAME [Variable]
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If this is NIL, HelpSys will look for the hash file as IRM.HASHFILE on IRM.HOST&DIR, otherwise it uses the value of this variable. Note that the hash file must be on a random access filing device (eg. the local disk).
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PROGRAMMERS¹ INTERFACE
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(IRM.LOOKUP KEYWORD TYPE GRAPH SMARTFLG) [Function]
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This is the primary function of HelpSys. If TYPE is specified, then the primary manual entry for KEYWORD of TYPE, or the first if there is no primary, will be displayed in WINDOW. If TYPE is not specified, then a pop-up menu will be raised containing all the manual entries for KEYWORD. Primary entries are marked with stars (*'s) on either end of the item. GRAPH should be the IRM Dinfo graph, and defaults to IRM.DINFOGRAPH.
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(IRM.SMART.LOOKUP KEYWORD GRAPH) [Function]
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Uses wild card matching if *'s are in KEYWORD (* matches any substring) or tries spelling correction. A pop-up menu is raised if more than one wild card match is found. Note that the first time a * appears in a KEYWORD, HelpSys will need to load the list of possible keywords for matching against, and only after this list has been loaded will spelling correction be enabled. This is the function called by the Lookup! button in DInfo's FreeMenu. GRAPH again defaults to IRM.DINFOGRAPH.
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(IRM.RESET) [Function]
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Will reset HelpSys so that everything will be reinitialized.
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