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dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041)

> My first question is: Where can I ask lots of questions concerning
> Andrew?

This is the correct forum.  You can also feel secure in sending
ATK-format documents to this list.

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dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041)

> Is there commercial support available or could I pay
> somebody for helping me?

The Andrew Consortium supports Andrew and acts as a clearlinghouse for
the Andrew sources.  Your organization could join at one of three
membership levels.  For more information contact the director, Fred
Hansen (wjh+@andrew.cmu.edu).

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dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041)

> - 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?

This feature used to be supported but I believe I removed it for some
good reason. ;^)  Let me look at the code and try to remember why.

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dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041)

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

You can disable any menubar and item.  Add this to the global.helpinit
file that should be located in $(ANDREWDIR)/lib:

addmenu "" "Window~12,Show Help on...~14" help
addmenu "" "Window~12,Show Help on Selected Word~26" help

The only problem with this is that users who have .helpinit files, will
have to use the include directive to get this behavior.

% cat ~/.helpinit
include /usr/andrew/lib/global.helpinit

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dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041)

> - Is there a way to put hypertext links in a help document and have
>   the new file be displayed in the old help window?

The newest version of help (only available to Consortium members)
includes hypertext help topics.  Those items that are surrounded with
the helptopic style (a dotted-box around the topic text), respond to a
mouse click by loading the associated document into the current window. 
I have a personal help template that puts the helptopic dotted-box style
in red on my color display.  Draw the attention.

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dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041)

> - 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)?


It should be doable and this is the sort of thing Consortium members get
when they ask.

Gary Keim
Andrew Consortium