[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <nospam-1FE165.12192104012013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
<nospam at sture.ch> writes: 

> In article <deaefade-6d49-4be3-82d0-dae39746898b at googlegroups.com>,
>  Bart Zorn <bart.zorn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > The TCPIP CLI has sucked from the beginning.

Actually, I like the concept, if not the details of the implementation.  
I like an interface I can use with SET and SHOW, with volatile and 
permanent databases, which has a VMS look and feel and will catch typos.

> You are not kidding.  My first experience with it was with UCX 3.n, and 
> the help would scroll off the top of a VT screen.  Redirecting 
> SYS$OUTPUT to disk didn't work either, so  I had to extract the text 
> from the help libraries to read it.

VMS HELP scrolls properly, but most utility-based HELP (VMS MAIL is an 
example) doesn't.  That's why I have this in MAIL$KEYDEF.INI:

   DEFINE/KEY PF2 "SPAWN HELP/LIBRARY=MAILHELP"/TERMINATE/NOECHO