*VMS Help and Text Libraries7

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8 - VMS Help and Text Libraries




F Affectionately known as Conan the Librarian, and with all due 6acknowlegement to Wierd Al.Yankovic :^), thisDscript makes VMS Help and Text libraries accessable inthe hypertext environment. 

L The librarian script will be automatically activated if the file specified 5has an extension of .HLB or .TLB. IAlternatively it may be explicitly activated by specifying /conan Mas a prefix to the file specification (but the ability to provide a relative Gspecification is lost). The following examples illustrate the syntax: H

  <A HREF="/sys$common/syshlp/helplib.hlb">VMS help</A>T  <A HREF="/conan/sys$common/syshlp/helplib.hlb">VMS help via /Conan</A>
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The following links provide an online demonstration:

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Other Librarian Functionality




B To obtain an index of matching libraries explicitly activate the <Conan script providing a wildcard file specification.^

  <A HREF="/conan/sys$common/syshlp/*.hlb">All Help libraries in SYS$HELP</A>
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The following link provides an online demonstration:

  

L To obtain the library header information add a query string to the library 7file specification, as shown in the following example: g

  <A HREF="/conan/sys$common/syshlp/helplib.hlb?do=header">VMS help library header</A>
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The following link provides an online demonstration:

  




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