FHELP (Jan93)                 ftools.futils                FHELP (Jan93)



NAME
    fhelp -- Display FTOOLS help information.
    
    
USAGE
    fhelp taskname
    
    
DESCRIPTION
    This task displays help information about  an  FTOOLS  task  in  the
    host  environment.   By   default   the  output  is  written  to the
    terminal (STDOUT),  but  the 'outfile'  parameter  may be   used  to
    direct  the  output to an ASCII file instead.  The  user is prompted
    to   enter  a  p<return>   to   page   the   next   page   of   help 
    information. Entering a q<return> quits the help application.
    
    
PARAMETERS
    
    task [task name]
        A  task name for which help information is to be displayed.
    
    (nrows = 22) [integer, min=1, max=80]
        The number of  number of rows to  display per page.
    
    (path = /system/dependent/path/) [path name]
        The  path name of the location of the ASCII help files.  This is
        site installation specific.
    
    (outfile = STDOUT) [file name]
        An optional name of the output ASCII file into which the  column
        information  will  be  written.  The default of 'STDOUT' directs
        output to the terminal.
    
    (clobber = yes) [boolean]
        If true, an existing file with the same name  as  specified  for
        the output filename will be overwritten.
    
    more = yes [boolean]
        This  parameter  is  used  to  request paging from the user.  It
        should not be specified on the command line.
        
        
EXAMPLES
    1.  Display the help information for the FTOOLS task fdump:
        ft> fhelp fdump
    2.  Display the help information for the FTOOLS task fhelp:
        ft> fhelp fhelp
    3.  Display the help information for all FTOOLS tasks:
        ft> fhelp ftools
    
    
BUGS
    
    SEE ALSO: fthelp