STARTER(1)

NAME
starter - information about the UNIX system for beginning users

SYNOPSIS
[ help ] starter

DESCRIPTION

The UNIX System help Facility command starter provides five categories of information about the UNIX system to assist new users.

The five categories are:
- commands a new user should learn first
- UNIX system documents important for beginners
- education centers offering UNIX system courses
- local environment information
- on-line teaching aids installed on the UNIX system

The user may choose one of the above categories by entering its corresponding letter (given in the menu), or may exit to the shell by typing q (for ``quit''). When a category is chosen, the user will receive one or more pages of information pertaining to it.

From any screen in the facility, a user may execute a command via the shell (sh(1)) by typing a ! and the command to be executed. The screen will be redrawn if the command that was executed was entered at a first level prompt. If entered at any other prompt level, only the prompt will be redrawn.

By default, the help facility scrolls the data that is presented to the user. If a user prefers to have the screen clear before printing the data (non-scrolling), a variable must be defined in the user's .profile file called SCROLL. The variable SCROLL must be set to no and exported for non-scrolling to occur. If the user later decides that scrolling is desired, the variable SCROLL must be set to yes or deleted from the user's .profile file.

Further information on the UNIX System help Facility can be found on the help(1), usage(1), locate(1), and glossary(1) manual pages.

SEE ALSO
help(1), locate(1), usage(1), glossary(1).

WARNINGS

If the TERM variable is not set in the user's .profile file, then TERM will default to the terminal value type 450 ( a hardcopy terminal ). For a list of valid terminal types, refer to term(5) in the UNIX Programmer's Manual. The help facility assumes that tabs are set on the user's terminal.