SHELP (Screen HELP)
              Screen-Oriented Help for Character Cell Terminals
                                July 8, 1993
                         Western Kentucky Univerity

SHELP is an SMG$-based HELP utility for VT terminals.  It was originally
written by George Merriman of Cambridge Computer Associates as NEWHELP. The
program was enhanced by Baron Chandler, Western Kentucky University, and
renamed SHELP.  The original comments are below.

As of this writing, DEC Pascal has not been released for OpenVMS AXP, so
a VESTed image (SHELP_TV.ALPHA_EXE) is provided for use on AXP systems.

Bug reports should be directed to Hunter Goatley <goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET>.
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                                  NEWHELP
            Screen-Oriented Help for Character Cell Terminals

     This program uses an SMG window to provide scrolling help text 
     from the system help library. It works very much like the normal
     VMS help command, but does not support any command line
     qualifiers. Prev-Screen and Next-Screen scroll through the text.
     PF1-Prev-Screen and PF1-Next-Screen scroll to the top and bottom
     of the text. The command line prompt is a little different from
     that in the standard HELP command, but is easy to use with
     command line editing. Broadcast message are trapped and displayed
     on the bottom of the screen.

     NEWHELP must be defined as a foreign command. A DCL command
     similar to the following will replace the standard HELp command
     with NEWHELP:

	$ h*elp :== $<directory>NEWHELP

     This program was written as an exercise in SMG and Pascal and was 
     prompted to some extent by a request on DECUServe. In addition to 
     this file, it requires two Pascal environment files: VMS_TYPES.PEN
     and PASCAL_LBR_ROUTINES.PEN as compiled from the corresponding
     .PAS files. It also uses the standard DEC-supplied VMS
     environment files STARLET.PEN, PASCAL$SMG_ROUTINES.PEN and
     PASCAL$LIB_ROUTINES.PEN.  The DCL command procedure
     NEWHELP_BUILD.COM will compile and link the program.    


					George Merriman
					Cambridge Computer Associates
					New York City
					merriman@camb.com