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1 tools
!   11/01/80 tools.hlp - help file to explain the use of the tools VOS
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A set of utilities which provide powerful text processing capabilities
as well as other capabilities.  A typical invocation is:

tool arguments [<inputfile] [>outputfile] [?errorfile]

Upon invocation, three io connections are established for the tool, termed
standard input, standard output, and errout.  If no redirection has
been specified in the command line, these connections are all to the
user's terminal.  The arguments are specific to each tool.  Each tool will
divulge the required arguments if invoked as

tool ?
 
A list of available tools may be had through the invocation of the `intro'
command.  Further help for a particular tool may be had by using the
`man' command.  From DCL, the following symbol definitions do the trick:

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$ intro:==$st_bin:intro
$ man:==$st_bin:man
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