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From: ZSYJKAA@WYOCDC1.BITNET (Jim Kirkpatrick 307 766-5303)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE:  Menu system like help
Message-ID: <880707090240.00000571.EAGG.83@WYOCDC1>
Date: 7 Jul 88 15:02:40 GMT
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Well, you can use HELP itself.  Refer to the DCL dictionary under the
HELP command and you can see that you can specify your own HELP library;
even typing HELP HELP will point this out.  Refer to the LIBRARIAN reference
manual for instructions on how to form and build your own HELP library.
As to your desire to type XYZ to get into it, you could define a symbol
      XYZ :== $HELP/qualifiers
in your LOGIN.COM file.  If you wanted a particular set of users to have
access to the symbol, it would either need to be in each LOGIN.COM file,
or if they are all in the same group ("group" in the UIC sense of the word)
it is possible to have a system manager define a group-wide LOGIN.COM;
I don't know how far you'd get in asking to have such a symbol added to
the system-wide login file for 2% of the system's users.

P.S. There's VMS experts or near-experts on your floor, the floor below,
and I live on the next floor up; maybe Info-VAX was overkill for asking
this question without first exhausting local options?