[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

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In article <nospam-82DB15.13240304012013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>In article <kc6gir$252$2 at online.de>,
> helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) 
> wrote:
>
>> In article <nospam-1FE165.12192104012013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
>> <nospam at sture.ch> writes: 
>> 
>> > In article <deaefade-6d49-4be3-82d0-dae39746898b at googlegroups.com>,
>> >  Bart Zorn <bart.zorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 
>> > > The TCPIP CLI has sucked from the beginning.
>> 
>> Actually, I like the concept, if not the details of the implementation.  
>> I like an interface I can use with SET and SHOW, with volatile and 
>> permanent databases, which has a VMS look and feel and will catch typos.
>> 
>> > You are not kidding.  My first experience with it was with UCX 3.n, and 
>> > the help would scroll off the top of a VT screen.  Redirecting 
>> > SYS$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
>
>Some utility based HELP does get this right.  Several years ago I 
>started on a project to discover how to do this properly and document 
>it, but unfortunately my Alpha died and I turned my attention elsewhere.

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