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NAME
starter - information about the UNIX system for beginning
users
SYNOPSIS
[ help ] starter
DESCRIPTION
The UNIX system Help Facility command starter provides five
categories of information about the UNIX system to assist
new users.
The five categories are:
- commands a new user should learn first
- UNIX system documents important for beginners
- education centers offering UNIX system courses
- local environment information
- on-line teaching aids installed on the UNIX system
The user may choose one of the above categories by entering
its corresponding letter (given in the menu), or may exit to
the shell by typing q (for "quit"). When a category is
chosen, the user will receive one or more pages of informa-
tion pertaining to it.
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. 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), the shell
variable SCROLL must be set to no and exported so it will
become part of your environment.
Information on each of the Help Facility commands (starter,
locate, usage, glossary, and help) is located on their
respective manual pages.
SEE ALSO
glossary(1), help(1), locate(1), sh(1), usage(1).
term(5) in the Programmer's Reference Manual.
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WARNINGS
If the environment variable TERM is not set, if defaults 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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