[Info-vax] Radical command line suggestion

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

hb skrev den 2015-03-20 22:49:
> On 03/20/2015 12:47 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>                                            ...   With man, a user can
>> easily search for keywords and can page around as needed, and that can
>> make finding and reading the necessary documentation easier.
>
> The navigation is more or less "less" or "more":
>
> $ man man
> ...
> Controlling formatted output
>    -P pager, --pager=pager
>      Specify  which  output pager to use.  By default, man uses pager
>      -s.  This option overrides the $MANPAGER  environment  variable,
>      which  in turn overrides the $PAGER environment variable.  ...
> ^Z
> [5]+  Stopped                 man man
> $ ps ax
> ...
>   5123 pts/0    T      0:00 man man
>   5135 pts/0    T      0:00 pager -s
>   5148 pts/0    R+     0:00 ps ax
> $
> $ which pager
> /usr/bin/pager
> $ file /usr/bin/pager
> /usr/bin/pager: symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/pager'
> $ file /etc/alternatives/pager
> /etc/alternatives/pager: symbolic link to `/bin/less'
> $
>
> Maybe one should compare "man topic" with "PIPE HELP/NOPAGE topic *
> |TYPE/PAGE=SAVE SYS$PIPE". Navigation in "TYPE" isn't great and with pipes
> it is even more limited.
>
> But almost all (decent/or recent?) VMS editors have the ability to redirect
> DCL command output into a buffer. That's probably the best you can do to
> get useful navigation for HELP.

Or use any of the web based interfaces to VMS HELP, as the links I
posted earlier. Just scroll/navigate as you like in your browser.