I wanted to highlight an item that we discussed on this morning's
virtual get-together.
Right now, the "front page" of HELP shows these commands as "With the
following commands you get help while using FreeDOS:"
AMB
AMBHELP
APROPOS
FASTHELP
FDHELP
FSUITE04
HELP
HTMLHELP
WHATIS
But FASTHELP, FDHELP, HELP, and HTMLHELP are all the same command
anyway, and the entry for FSUITE04 just says "FASTHELP is a fasthelp
clone for FreeDOS." So having these extra items in Help is redundant.
Bernd identified that AMB and AMBHELP are mentioned in the Help
system, but not installed in the floppy version. We talked about
removing AMB and AMBHELP from the Help documentation, since the
official "Help" system is the HELP command.
We discussed trimming this list to just these:
HELP
APROPOS
WHATIS
Note that APROPOS and WHATIS are basically lookups in the PKGINFO
system. Running 'APROPOS {name}' will give you info about that topic:
> C:\>apropos choice
> CHOICE : choice (4.4a)
>
> C:\>apropos watcomc
> WATCOMC : Open Watcom C Compiler (1.9)
And running 'WHATIS' will give you a list of all packages. From the
\FREEDOS\BIN directory, you can also run 'WHATIS {topic}' to get the
package that has that command:
> C:\FREEDOS\BIN>whatis slicer
> SLICER : File Slicer (0.24 (BETA))
>
> C:\FREEDOS\BIN>whatis wwwatch
> ETHTOOLS : ETHTOOLS (8feb2010 (rev A))
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