> it is funny but to some extent I am a guinea pig for this aspect ... and I > must admit self-documentation is really one of the weak points of QDOS and > its successors! > QDOS may be far superior to MSDOS, but it lacks the "What's this?" concept: > whenever in MSDOS I do not know how to use a certain command I can query > some help using the /? option. So for instance with "dir /?" I get a listing > of possible commands. This shouldn't be too difficult to do. Write a basic extension called HELP - if it has no parameters, gives a list of commands it knows about, if it has one string (or possibly name) parameter, looks up either in its inbuilt help text file or the configured help file name for the help corresponding to that string.
I'm sure there's a program or three out there to do this, though at the moment I can't think what the packages are called. Trouble is, SuperBASIC, SBASIC and the various toolkit extensions have so many keywords the help files might fill an unexpanded QL perhaps! Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
