Getting Help

Online/SPECTRA has a tree-like structured online help, like it is known from VMS.

ONLINE$>$ help [topic [subtopic [...]]]
Example:
ONLINE$>$ help move

In addition there is the apropos command that searches the help file for occurrences of strings.

ONLINE$>$ apropos string1 [string2 [string3]]
Example:
ONLINE$>$ apro conversion

If more than one search-string is supplied, only those lines are displayed which contain all strings. Apropos allows you to jump into the help tree.

Those who plan to write their own command files have to look into the SPECTRA manual. It is distributed via the WWW “HASYLAB Computing”. It is available as HTML document and as Postscript file.

Separate notes have been written for those experiments which use Online. There you find the information which is specific for a particular experiment. The beamline notes are also distributed via the WWW.