anchors -- Hypertext links. A anchor or hypertext link is a link from one document to another in online documentation. HTML allows you to readily link parts of one file (text and images) to another document (or an image) using hypertext links or ``anchors''. When text is used for an anchor it is usually set off by color, underlining, or both to indicate that it is a hypertext link. To activate a link, click on it.
ASCII -- ASCII is short for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. The 128 character set is a standard computer character set developed in 1968.
When referring to ``ASCII'' many people also erroneously include all the characters in the IBM PC extended extended character set. This set consists of 254 letters, technical symbols, graphics block characters, and 32 control characters that you do not usually see. The characters with numbers above the original 128 ASCII characters are sometimes referred to as higher-order ASCII characters. An ASCII file is a file containing only the 128 original ASCII characters.
book and book sets -- SCOhelp organizes online documentation into topics, books, and book sets. A topic is the smallest organized section of information. A book is a set of related topics containing a table of contents and an index. A book set is a set of books about a single technology area (for example, networking) containing reference manual pages as well as user and administrator documentation.
client -- In the SCO graphical environment, ``client'' usually refers to an application that creates a display on the screen. It is a client of the X server which creates the graphical canvas for the graphical client to paint on. Note that client can be used in many other ways.
help server -- SCOhelp has a ``helpserver'' mode. ``helpserver'' mode begins when scohelp is started by asking for help from another tool or application. scohelp operates in "stand alone" mode when started from a scoterm command line with the command scohelp or from the Desktop by double clicking on the Help icon.
Global History -- While the term is a bit misleading, SCOhelp's Global History refers to all the hypertext documents you have ever opened using the help document viewer. If set, SCOhelp keeps track of all visited documents and hyperlinks until cleared. You can clear the list of visited links by selecting Clear Global History from the Options menu.
home page -- A home page is the document that SCOhelp displays when it starts. You can open the home page at any time by selecting Home from the Navigate menu, or by clicking on the Home button on the tool bar. By default, the home page is the SCO Documentation Library, but users can create their own HTML home page. For more information on how to set up your own home page, see Chapter 22, ``Making documents available to the network'' in the Networking Guide.
HTML -- HyperText Markup Language. HTML is a DTD (document type definition) of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). HTML is a collection of marked styles that define the various components of an online hypertext document. While SCOhelp can display plain ASCII documents, if you want to display formatted text when accessed by the SCOhelp viewer, you must code your document in HTML.
If you have access to the internet, you can access the
HTML design specification by opening the URL:
http://www0.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Markup/HTML.html
For more information about HTML style, see:
http://www0.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Provider/Style/Overview.html
PostScript -- PostScript, developed by Adobe Systems, Inc., is a programming language describing how to print a page that blends text and graphics. A PostScript file is a file containing a PostScript printer control program. Usually, a PostScript file can be printed by sending it to a PostScript printer.
reference page -- Sometimes known as manual pages or ``man'' pages, these provide quick access to detailed information about various parts of the SCO OpenServer system.
SCOhelp can access them either through the Help Library, the Open Reference item on the File menu, or by using the global Search tool.
stand alone -- SCOhelp runs in stand alone mode when started from a scoterm command line with the command scohelp. When SCOhelp is called from another tool or application, it operates in "helpserver" mode as a help document server to the tool or application.
tags -- A tag refers to the mark that begins and ends an HTML element.
topic -- SCOhelp organizes online documentation into topics, books, and book sets. A topic is the smallest organized section of information. A book is a set of related topics containing a table of contents and an index. A book set is a set of books about a single technology area (for example, networking) containing reference manual pages as well as user and administrator documentation.
widget tree -- Widgets are user interface components of X Window System(TM) client applications. Users see widgets as buttons, menus, scroll bars, and so on. A widget tree is the set of widgets within a given X or OSF/Motif® graphical application. An OSF/Motif application consists of multiple widgets combined to create more complex user interfaces.
URL --
URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator.
It is a kind of network extension to the
standard filename concept. Not only can you
point to a file in a directory,
but that file and that directory can exist
on any machine accessible via your network.
URLs can point to queries, documents stored
deep within databases, or the results
of other types of commands.
For example:
http: //systemname.sco.com/filename.html
In this example http: signifies how to get a document, systemname.sco.com signifies where to get it and filename.html signifies what to get.
To open URLs with SCOhelp, you must be in Web Browser Mode.