The Help menu
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The PADE Help menu provides the user with two methods to obtain help.
Help is available through (1) local man pages and (2) the World-Wide-Web.
The user can find help on a variety of topics. The main topics that the PADE
Help menu focuses on are PADE operations and PVM. In this section, the
entries of the Help menu are discussed in detail.
Figure 5.6: The WWW menu under the HELP main menu
The PADE Help menu consists of five entries. These entries are as
follows.
- Man Pages - This menu-entry provides the user with access to
online man pages covering subjects related to PVM and to the Guide to
Available Mathematical Software (GAMS). Moving the cursor over this
menu-entry causes a cascaded menu to appear; selection of an entry in this
cascaded menu causes the appropriate man page to be displayed in a List
Output window. The submenu consists of four entries described next. The
Help menu along with this cascaded submenu are pictured in Fig.
(5.5).
- pvm_intro - A man page containing a general introduction to the
PVM software plus a description of all of environment variables read by PVM.
- pvm (console) - A man page containing a description of the PVM
console program.
- pvmd3 (daemon) - A man page containing a description of the PVM
daemon program.
- gams - A man page describing the Guide to Available
Mathematical Software on-line cross-index of available mathematical and
statistical software. This man page will probably disappear in later releases
because the preferred method of accessing GAMS is through the WWW.
- WWW - This menu-entry provides the user with links to help via
the World-Wide-Web. Moving the mouse arrow over this menu-entry causes a
cascaded menu to appear; selection of an entry in this submenu invokes an
instance of the user-specified WWW-browser whose default home-page has been
redirected appropriately to the submenu-entry. The number and type of entries
in this submenu will change over time except for the first two. They are
- PADE - Provides a link to the NIST PADE home-page.
- PADE Manual - Provides a link to the local online
PADE manual
The PADE Help menu along with the WWW cascaded
submenu are shown in Fig. 5.6.
- WWW browser is: - This menu-entry enables the user to specify
the preferred World-Wide-Web browser. There are two WWW browsers that
are supported in this release of PADE. They are NCSA Mosaic and Netscape.
Selection of this entry causes a PADE Entry box to appear. This box consists
of a text-entry box preceded by the words Enter WWW browser command on
the top and a row of four buttons on the bottom. The user should enter the
preferred WWW browser in the text entry box. Note that, if the browser is
not located in a directory in the user's PATH environment variable,
the fully qualified path name should be entered. The buttons along the bottom
of the PADE Entry box are
- Clear - Clear text from the text-entry box.
- File Browser - Invoke the file browser window.
- Done - Accept the WWW browser choice and exit.
- Cancel - Cancel WWW browser choice and exit.
The default WWW browser for PADE is Mosaic.
- Confirmation dialog is: - This menu-entry enables the user to
turn off some of the extra confirmation dialog boxes that appear when
certain windows (such as the PADE Setup window) exit. Selection of
this entry toggles Confirmation dialog either on or off.
- Report bugs to: - This menu-entry conveys information about
where to send bug reports on PADE. Nothing happens when this entry
is selected.
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