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NAME

sccshelp - ask for help on SCCS commands

SYNOPSIS

sccshelp [arg]...

DESCRIPTION

The

sccshelp command ﬁnds information to explain a message from an SCCS command or to explain

the use of a SCCS command. Zero or more arguments can be supplied. If no arguments are given,

sccshelp prompts for one:

What is the message number or SCCS command name?

The arguments can be either message numbers (which normally appear in parentheses following mes-

sages) or command names, of one of the following types:

Type 1 Begins with nonnumerics, ends in numerics. The nonnumeric preﬁx is usually an abbre-

viation for the program or set of routines which produced the message (e.g.,

ge6, for

message 6 from the

get command).

Type 2 Does not contain numerics (as a command, such as

get).

Type 3 Is all numeric (e.g.,

212).

The response of the program is the explanatory information related to the argument, if there is any.

You can use

sccshelp to support other commands by means of the helploc ﬁle. To do this, create

help ﬁles in the appropriate format and add the location of the helpﬁles to

/usr/share/lib/sccshelp/helploc

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

Environment Variables

LC_CTYPE determines the interpretation of text as single- and/or multibyte characters.

LANG determines the language in which messages are displayed.

LC_CTYPE is not speciﬁed or is null, it defaults to the value of

LANG.IfLANG is not speciﬁed or is

null, it defaults to "C" (see lang (5)). If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting, all

internationalization variables default to "C". See environ (5).

International Code Set Support

Single- and multibyte character code sets are supported.

DIAGNOSTICS

There is not a place to look for help on the subject of arg

There is not any help available on the subject of arg

When all else fails, try

sscshelp stuck.

EXAMPLES

If you enter the SCCS

get command without parameters, you would get the message:

ERROR: missing file arg (cm3)

If you request help for the command:

sccshelp get

it displays:

get:

get [-r<SID>] [-c<cutoff>] [-i<list>] [-x<list>] [-a<seq no.>]

[-k] [-e] [-l<p>] [-p] [-m] [-n] [-s] [-b] [-g] [-t]

[-w<string>] file ...

If you request help for the error number:

sccshelp cm3

it displays:

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