Getting Help On The Digital Unix And Openvms Alpha (Srm) Console - Compaq AlphaServer 1000A Owner's Manual

Basic Operation

Getting Help on the Digital UNIX and OpenVMS Alpha (SRM) Console

To get online help, enter help at the SRM console prompt. Example 4-6 shows the help
command and the resulting display.
Example 4–6: The help Command
>>> help
NAME
help
FUNCTION
Display information about console commands.
SYNOPSIS
help [<command>...]
Command synopsis conventions:
<item> Implies a placeholder for user specified item.
<item>... Implies an item or list of items.
[] Implies optional keyword or item.
{a,b,c} Implies any one of a, b, c.
{a|b|c} Implies any combination of a, b, c.
The following help topics are available:
alloc
check
create
edit
false
grep
isp1020_edit
man
ps
set host
show hwrpb
sleep
update
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