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NAME

       yelp, gnome-help - GNOME help browser

SYNOPSIS

       yelp | gnome-help [--private-session] [--with-cache-dir=string] [gnome-std-options] url

DESCRIPTION

       The  GNOME  help  browser  is  a  utility  that	allows users to view documentation for GNOME in several formats including man pages, HTML,
       SGML(DocBook), and GNU info files.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --private-session	       Use a private session.

       --with-cache-dir=directory      Specify which cache directory to use.

       gnome-std-options	       Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more  infor-
				       mation.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       url	       This allows you to view a specific help document by providing the complete url to the documentation that you wish to view.

		       If url starts with "ghelp:", yelp opens the help document within ghelp.

		       If  url does not start with "ghelp:", yelp attempts to launch a default Internet browser window and display the contents of
		       the help document within this browser window.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION

       Refer to the GNOME Handbook of Writing Software Documentation:

       http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/handbook.html

       To access the API documentation for including help in applications, you must install the developer version of the package.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching GNOME Help Browser

       example% yelp

       Example 2: Launching GNOME Help Browser and loading the help information for the GNOME Accessibility guide.

       example% yelp ghelp:///usr/share/gnome/help/gnome-access-guide/C/gnome-access-guide.xml

       Example 3: Launching GNOME Help Browser with a standard Internet URL

       example% yelp http://www.gnome.org

       The default Internet browser is launched (unless a browser is already running), and this URL is displayed within the browser window.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables:

       INFOPATH 	       Location of GNU Info files.

       MANPATH		       Location of man pages.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/yelp	       Executable for GNOME help browser

       /usr/bin/gnome-help     Symbolic link to yelp.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-help-viewer	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       scrollkeeper-config(1), scrollkeeper(1), scrollkeeper-devel(1), attributes(5), environ(5), gnome-std-options(5)

NOTES

       yelp and gnome-help are both the same application.

       Written by Matt Keenan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2007.

SunOS 5.11							    08 Nov 2007 							   yelp(1)