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4.2.18 ‘-h’: Get help

If just ‘-h’ is typed, a message is printed saying where further help is available. It refers one to the various information options (see Info options) and the on-line documentation (see Support). If the stand-alone info program (the GNU hypertext browser) is installed, one can enter ‘info FWEB’ at this time by typing ‘?’ or a space-separated list of FWEB menu items such as ‘Macros FWEB built-in $PI’. In fact, since ‘$PI’ appears in the detailed node listing, one can simply type ‘$PI’. More generally, one can type anything that info accepts on its command line (the option ‘-f FWEB’ is implicit).

One can bypass the printed message and directly enter info by specifying the info arguments as arguments to ‘-h’. For example, on a UNIX system, one could type ‘-h'\$PI'’. Here the dollar sign must be escaped because it has special significance to the shell, and the quotes are necessary in order to preserve that escape character as the argument is supplied to info. To get to the top-level FWEB info directory, type ‘-h.’ or ‘-h'?'’.