The Help Menu

The Help menu (Figure 5.10) contains several sources of assistance to the user. These come from World Wide Web pages, man pages and a system dependent help command. The entries in this menu are:

 

Figure 5.10. The Help menu

• WWW -- selection of a submenu entry will spawn the WWW browser specified by the user preference (Section 5.4) and connect to the selected WWW page. The number and type of entries in this submenu will change over time except for the first two:
  • PADE Home Page -- provides a link to the PADE home page at NIST.
  • PADE Manual (local) -- provides a link to the local online PADE manual.

• Man Pages -- selection of a submenu entry opens a scrollable window with the selected man page. Currently supports:
  • pvm_intro -- general introduction to PVM and PVM environment variables
  • pvm (console) -- description of the PVM console program.
  • pvm3 (daemon) -- description of the PVM daemon program.

• xman -- runs the X Window System interface to man pages.

• system dependent help command -- this menu entry varies from system to system, and is some form of help command. Currently supported help commands are:
  • IRIS InSight on IRIX
  • InfoExplorer on AIX
  • Helpview on HP-UX
  • AnswerBook on SunOS

  Consult your local system documentation for information on running the above help commands.

• On PADE -- prints a brief summary of the PADE operations in the bottom of the PADE main window.

• Usage License -- prints the PADE usage license.