SGIHELP(1)                                                          SGIHELP(1)



NAME
     sgihelp - The Silicon Graphics Help Viewer

SYNOPSIS
     sgihelp [ -debug ] [ -nofork ]

     sgihelp -app app_classname -c index [ -l lib_path ] [ -debug ] [ -nofork ]

     sgihelp -b book_name -k help_key [ -app app_classname ]
                [ -l lib_path ] [ -debug ] [ -nofork ] [ -m user_data ] ]


DESCRIPTION
     sgihelp is an online help viewer. This viewer provides an easy-to-use
     interface which allows the user to browse through help information that
     is distributed from Silicon Graphics.

     sgihelp is based on the insight(1) on-line viewing technology.  The
     content for the help information that is displayed is derived from the
     insight(1) books.

     sgihelp is an application that gets started only when a request is made
     for "help". A user should never have to start sgihelp from the command-
     line, unless it is used to generate a help request through a combination
     of the command-line arguments described below.  Requests can be generated
     from:

          o  Help menu item(s) found within an application
          o  A help pushbutton on an application window
          o  An application sending a request directly
          o  SGIHelp itself

     sgihelp renders the request, if the help content is available (see
     "FILES" below).

     The sgihelp window is composed of two panes (areas): the Viewer pane and
     the Contents/Search pane. For further information, consult the sgihelp
     on-line help.

OPTIONS
     -app The -app app_classname options tells sgihelp to process a help
          request for the given application. The app_classname coincides with
          an associated help file that can be found in (default)
          /usr/share/help or it can be the same as the name used for the
          application's defaults file, found in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults.

     -b   The -b book_name option tells sgihelp to examine the specified book
          for help content for the given request.  The book_name is the
          abbreviated short title for the book.  Note that this option is
          case-sensitive. For example:

          sgihelp -b IRISEssentials ...



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     -k   The -k help_key option tells sgihelp to render the help card that
          has a specified "HelpId=" attribute of help_key.

     -c   The -c command option is used to invoke sgihelp and open the
          Contents/Search area for the designated app_classname.  You must
          specify index as the parameter following this option; which is an
          artifact of an older version of sgihelp.

          For example, the command used for opening sgihelp and loading the
          available help information for the insight application would be:

          sgihelp -app Insight -c index

     -debug
          Tells sgihelp to print messages it is receiving to stdout.

     -nofork
          The -nofork (or -f) option tells sgihelp to run in the foreground.
          The default is to automatically background when starting.

     -l   The -l lib_path option tells sgihelp to load the specified IRIS
          InSight library.  A library is defined as a collection of
          bookshelves. By default, the library is rooted at
          /usr/share/Insight/library. The path (relative or full) to the new
          library should be specified.  Only one library may be specified. For
          example:

          sgihelp -l /usr/share/Insight/lib_XXX ...

          Another method for specifying the designated library is to set the
          resource, "defLibPath". The resource value should be designated as:

          SGIHelp*defLibPath: /usr/share/Insight/lib_XXX


     -m   The -m user_data option is used to pass data to sgihelp and is
          currently only used by the System Monitor; see sysmon(1m).

NOTES
     If you are having problems viewing remote, web-based, HTML help documents
     you may need to run the program webcontrol to configure an underlying set
     of toolkits (webviewer, websupport_eoe) that sgihelp uses. See the man
     page on webcontrol(1) for details.  This will be required if your site is
     behind a "firewall", or uses a proxy server, for example.


FILES
     /usr/sbin/sgihelp, /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/SGIHelp

     Help content for the IRIX Interactive Desktop(TM) is retrieved from the
     following sample of book subsystems (subject to change):




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     desktop_eoe.books.*     IRIX Interactive Desktop(TM) Books
     dmedia_eoe.books.*      Digital Media Tools User's Guide, Help
     eoe.books.*             IRIX Execution Environment Books
     imgtools.books.*        ImageVision Tools User's Guide, Help
     impr_base.books.*       Impressario User's Guide
     sysmon.books.*          Desktop System Monitor Help
     *.books.[Hh]elp         Various Help-related books


SEE ALSO
     insight(1)









































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