All our scripts reside in a group that has 'access=(r,w,a,l,s:cr;x:any)'. This prevents users from looking at the contents via the :help <scriptname> command. They can only see the help text if they supply a question-mark (?) as the first parameter. Using this method you can have imbeded passwords/lockwords, etc that are kept safe.

regards,

Robert W.Mills
Systems Development Manager
Windsong Services
(020) 8309 3604


HP-3000 Systems Discussion wrote:
> (in my non-guru experience)
> as others have noted, the way to display a help-text is to use a
> "help" or "?" parameter (with a default-value), it does, however, not
> work with the 
>> help command.
> To disable the :help-commands helpful feature of listing a
> commandfile, you can use the "option nohelp" option.
> 
> hth
> 
> /per
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> HP-3000 Systems Discussion <[log in to unmask]> skrev 2004-08-25
> 20:59:12:
> 
>>  I wrote a command file includeing a bit of long CI code. When I
>> type :help startpro my return is a print out of the startpro.command
>> file. 
>> 
>>  I was wondering if I could change that so when I type help
>> startpro it just gives a breif description of the useage, and
>> not a print out of the whole script?
>> 
>> Any help would be much appricated :)
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Gehan G.
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