Wirt, just what you are looking for, on 9/21, Jeff Vance wrote:

Hi all,

I have an opportunity to submit general fixes to our online
HELP text into the 7.0 mainline release.  I have incorporated
fixes suggested by a few folks on 3000-L already.  Here is
your chance to help us make the information provided by the
MPE HELP facility more accurate, readable and useful.

I cannot guarantee that all suggestions will be used, but
I will attempt to do so.


regards,
 Jeff Vance, CSY

NOTE: I am not subscribed to 3000-L, so please reply to me
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 11:14 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] a BIG thankyou to all
>
>
> Barry writes:
>
> > Even if you don't read the communicator, you can find a wealth of
> >  information by doing ":help functions" at the CI prompt.
> This should give
> you
> >  a summary of the functions available. Then, for more
> information about a
> >  particular function, for example word, just do ":help word".
>
> Yes, that's true -- if you can remember the "functions" part
> of the help
> command.
>
> The other day, I couldn't, and it just about drove me crazy.
> There's no way
> to get to the list of functions other than to remember ":help
> functions" that
> I could find.
>
> If Jeff Vance were still listening to this group, I would
> suggest that the
> word "FUNCTIONS" be put under the system programming group
> (PROGRAMMING),
> just so that those of us who are growing more elderly by the
> day can have
> their memories jogged a little more easily -- and at the same
> time create a
> more logical top-down route to the functions list.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>