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Keep 'help' from opening several windows

#1941
From: dunkel
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:34
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I am new to the Andrew software and I am not familiar with relevant
newsgroups or bulletin-boards. So please send me mail and tell me
where an answer is posted if that's the normal way to get an answer.
Thanks.

My first question is: Where can I ask lots of questions concerning
Andrew? Is there commercial support available or could I pay
somebody for helping me? Here are some of my questions - I would
appreciate ANY hint on how to get a (partial) answer:

The history mechanism in 'help' is great. Now all I need to find out
is to keep help from opening lots of help windows
to really make use of the history panel.

- How can I supply a new keyword to a running help process from another
  program (with the current file being listed in the History panel)? 
  There is a command line option for help to request a new window - but how
  can I request to use the old one? I know about typescript. But I 
  want to call the help system from another program. Is there a way
  to call typescript to call help without opening a typescript window?

- Is there a way to disable the "Window menu" in the help system (to
  keep the user from opening lots of additional help windows)?

- Is there a way to put hypertext links in a help document and have
  the new file be displayed in the old help window?
 
- How can I swap right and left headers on even pages when printing
  from the help program (like the option in "Printer Setup" in ez)?

Thanks!
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