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     NAME
          glossary - definitions of common terms and symbols

     SYNOPSIS
          [ help ] glossary [ term ]

     DESCRIPTION
          The DG/UX system Help Facility command glossary provides
          definitions of common technical terms and symbols.

          Without an argument, glossary displays a menu screen listing
          the terms and symbols that are currently included in
          glossary. A user may choose one of the terms, or the user
          may quit and exit to the shell by typing q.  When a term is
          selected, its definition is retrieved and displayed.  By
          selecting the appropriate menu choice, the list of terms and
          symbols can be redisplayed.

          A term's definition may also be requested directly from
          shell level (as shown above), causing a definition to be
          retrieved and the list of terms and symbols not to be
          displayed.  Some of the symbols must be escaped if requested
          at shell level in order for the facility to understand the
          symbol.  The following is a table that lists the symbols and
          their escape sequences.

               SYMBOL   SH(1) ESCAPE SEQUENCE
                 ""             \"\"
                 ''             \'\'
                 []            \\[\\]
                 ``             \`\`
                 #               \#
                 &               \&
                 *               \*
                 \              \\\\
                 |               \|

          When invoking glossary(1) from the csh, the escape sequences
          are the same as in the sh(1) except for the square brackets
          ([]).  The escape sequence for [] is \[\].

          From any screen in the Help Facility, a user may execute a
          command via the shell (sh(1)) by typing a ! and the command
          to be executed.  The screen will be redrawn if the command
          that was executed was entered at a first level prompt of the
          Help facility.  If entered at any other prompt level, only
          the prompt will be redrawn.

          By default, the Help Facility scrolls the data that is
          presented to the user.  If you prefer to have the screen
          clear before printing the data (non-scrolling), set the
          shell environment variable SCROLL to no.  In the Bourne



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          shell, sh, do this by adding the following line to your
          .profile file (see profile(4)):

          SCROLL=no; export SCROLL

          In the csh, add the following line to your .login file:

          setenv SCROLL no

          If you later decide that you prefer scrolling, set SCROLL to
          yes.

          Information on each of the Help Facility commands (starter,
          locate, usage, glossary, and help) is located on their
          respective manual pages.

     SEE ALSO
          help(1), helpadm(1M), locate(1), csh(1), sh(1), starter(1),
          usage(1).
          term(5) in the Programmer's Reference for the DG/UX System.

     WARNINGS
          If the shell variable TERM (see sh(1)) is not set in the
          user's .profile file or .login, TERM will default to the
          terminal value type 450 (a hard-copy terminal).  For a list
          of valid terminal types, refer to term(5).





























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