NAME

helpopen - utility for programmatically controlling helpviewer(1)

SYNOPSIS

helpopen help-handbook-file

DESCRIPTION

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

helpopen sends a ToolTalk request to a running helpviewer to display the specified help handbook file. If no helpviewer is running, helpopen starts one.

OpenWindows users do not typically need to use helpopen directly. It is used to implement the "more help" feature in OpenWindows spot help.

OPTIONS

helpopen accepts the following command line options:

-f help-handbook-file

Specify the name of the help handbook to be viewed. The file name must be relative to a directory in $HELPPATH. See helpviewer(1) for more information.

DIAGNOSTICS

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

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.