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gnome-help

yelp(1) 							   User Commands							   yelp(1)

NAME

       yelp, gnome-help - GNOME help browser

SYNOPSIS

       yelp [URL] [gnome-std-options]

       gnome-help [URL] [gnome-std-options]

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:

       gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications.  See gnome-std-options(5) for more information.

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

       The GNOME Handbook of Writing Software Documentation is available at the following URL:

       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 gnome-printinfo

       example% yelp ghelp:///usr/share/gnome/help/gnome-print-manager/C/gnome-print-manager.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     Executable for GNOME help browser

ATTRIBUTES

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

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

SEE ALSO

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

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

NOTES

       yelp and gnome-help are both the same application.

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

SunOS 5.10							    8 Oct 2003								   yelp(1)

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