NAME

helpopen − utility for programmatically controlling helpviewer

SYNOPSIS

helpopen view-link

AVAILABILITY

helpopen and related utilities are available as part of OpenWindows Version 3.1 and the Solaris 2.1 operating system. 

DESCRIPTION

helpopen is a utility for programmatically controlling helpviewer(1). 

helpopen takes a helpviewer-style hypertext link and passes it through RPC to a running helpviewer for execution. If no helpviewer is running, helpopen starts one. 

OpenWindows users do not typically need to use helpopen or understand the helpviewer hypertext-link syntax. 

DIAGNOSTICS

helpopen prints an error message on failure and returns non-zero exit status. 

NOTES

The helpviewer hypertext-link language is not documented. 

BUGS

helpviewer and helpopen do not share the same view of the file system, since they are separate processes and could be running on different machines. 
 

SunOS 5.1/x86  —  Last change: 02 March 1992