Sorry to follow up on my own message but found one more amusing thing.

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 15:01:01 GMT, [log in to unmask] (Danny A. van Delft)
wrote:

...

>So I stand corrected, partially. Note the absense of the -A flag in
>the man page. To be frank, I've never used the help command before,
>always man.

output from "man help":

     help(1)               MPE/iX Shell and Utilities
help(1)

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     NAME
     help -- display brief command explanations

     SYNOPSIS
     help [command ...]

     DESCRIPTION
     The help command provides information about the MPE/iX Shell and
     Utilities utility specified by command.

     help acts as a mnemonic reference tool for command options.  It
offers
     more information than the standard usage message displayed by all
     commands, but considerably less than the man pages.  Output for a
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

... but sometimes more ...

Thanks for the pointer to "help" though Lars, will be checking it also
from now on.

Danny A. van Delft   [log in to unmask]