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gives access to on-line information about C-PLOT's commands and functions.

h
or
h topic

Enter h with no parameters to display a listing of all C-PLOT help topics. When h and the desired subject are entered, a help file named topic will be formatted to your screen size and displayed. Type hcmds for a list of C-PLOT's commands.

Help files reside in $CPLOTHOME/help. If topic includes a / character, the specified path (absolute or relative) is used to find the file.

The help-file format is described in the help_fmt help file. C-PLOT formats help files on the fly to fit whatever terminal screens and workstation windows may be in use. The help files can be printed using the troff, ditroff, or gtroff UNIX text formatters and the head.man and Makefile files in the $CPLOTHOME/help_tools directory. See the README file in that directory for specific information on running off printed copies of the help files.

Additional help files can be added by each site. The site can create a file named $CPLOTHOME/motd that C-PLOT will display when it starts.

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