User Commands                                             yelp(1)



NAME
     yelp, gnome-help - GNOME help browser

SYNOPSIS
     yelp      gnome-help   [--private-session]   [--with-cache-
     dir=string] [gnome-std-options] url

DESCRIPTION
     The GNOME help browser is a utility  that  allows  users  to
     view  documentation  for  GNOME in several formats including
     man pages, HTML, SGML(DocBook), and GNU info files.

OPTIONS
     The following options are supported:

     --private-session               Use a private session.



     --with-cache-dir=directory      Specify which  cache  direc-
                                     tory to use.



     gnome-std-options               Standard  options  available
                                     for   use  with  most  GNOME
                                     applications.   See   gnome-
                                     std-options(5)    for   more
                                     information.



OPERANDS
     The following operands are supported:

     url             This allows you  to  view  a  specific  help
                     document  by  providing  the complete url to
                     the documentation that you wish to view.

                     If url starts with "ghelp:", yelp opens  the
                     help document within ghelp.

                     If url does not start  with  "ghelp:",  yelp
                     attempts   to   launch  a  default  Internet
                     browser window and display the  contents  of
                     the  help  document within this browser win-
                     dow.



EXTENDED DESCRIPTION




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     Refer to the GNOME Handbook of Writing  Software  Documenta-
     tion:

     http:/developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/handbook.html

     To access the API documentation for including help in appli-
     cations, you must install the developer version of the pack-
     age.

EXAMPLES
     Example 1: Launching GNOME Help Browser

     example% yelp

     Example 2: Launching GNOME Help Browser and loading the help
     information for the GNOME Accessibility guide.

     example% yelp ghelp:/usr/share/gnome/help/gnome-access-guide/C/gnome-access-guide.xml

     Example 3: Launching GNOME  Help  Browser  with  a  standard
     Internet URL

     example% yelp http:/www.gnome.org

     The default Internet browser is launched (unless  a  browser
     is  already  running),  and this URL is displayed within the
     browser window.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment
     variables:

     INFOPATH                Location of GNU Info files.



     MANPATH                 Location of man pages.



EXIT STATUS
     The following exit values are returned:

     0        Application exited successfully



     >0       Application exited with failure







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FILES
     The following files are used by this application:

     /usr/bin/yelp           Executable for GNOME help browser



     /usr/bin/gnome-help     Symbolic link to yelp.



ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     
           ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE VALUE       
    
     Availability                 SUNWgnome-help-viewer       
    
     Interface stability          Volatile                    
    


SEE ALSO
     Latest version of the GNOME  Desktop  User  Guide  for  your
     platform.

     scrollkeeper-config(1),    scrollkeeper(1),    scrollkeeper-
     devel(1), attributes(5), environ(5), gnome-std-options(5)

NOTES
     yelp and gnome-help are both the same application.

     Written by Matt Keenan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2007.




















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