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.TH help 1 "April 1993" "Scilab Group" "Scilab Function"
.so ../sci.an
.SH NAME
help - on-line help command
.SH CALLING SEQUENCE
.nf
	help word
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
To each documented word corresponds a \fVword.cat\fR ascii file. these files
are organised within directories (chapters). Each chapter must contain
\fV*.cat\fR files and a \fVwhatis\fR file with one line for each documented word
in the chapter. Each line must have the following format :

.nf
word - quick description
.fi

List of chapter directories is given in a file (whose path is given
in the \fV$MANCHAPTERS\fR environment variable) with the following
format for each chapter:

.nf
chapter_path    chapter_title
.fi
.LP
\fVMANCHAPTERS\fR default value is SCI/man/Chapters. If you want
to add new help chapters you have to do a copy of the
SCIDIR/man/Chapters file where you want, to add descriptions lines for
each new chapter and to define the new value of MANCHAPTERS
environment variable.
.LP
See also Scilab's manual 
.SH SEE ALSO
apropos