Listing 4: A sample online help menu

# Listing 4
# mantxt - the online man pages menu for commonly used shell commands
#
<mainmenu p>clear
<mainmenu p>echo "main" > formkey
<main>                      Shell Commands - Online Help
<main>
<main>     Users                      Data                        Files
<main>
<main>who (who is on)           grep (text search)              ls (list)
<main>w (what are users doing)  sed  (stream editor)            ln (link)
<main>                          awk  (progamming language)      cp (copy)
<main>                          echo (echo arguments)           mv (move)
<main>                          ascii (ascii table)             rm (remove)
<main>                          od (octal dump)                 find (find)
<main>
<main>   Mail/Messages              Filesystems               Permissions
<main>
<main>mail (send/receive mail)    du (disk usage)         chmod (change mode)
<main>write (write message)       df (free disk space)    chown (change owner)
<main>wall (write to all users)   cd (change directory)   chgrp (change group)
<main>
<main>    Environment                                           Special
<main>
<main>stty (terminal settings)                            ps (process status)
<main>tset (set terminal modes)                           kill (stop process)
<main>pwd (display working directory)                     vi (text editor)
<main>                                                    exec (run command)
<main p>echo
<main p>echo "                    Enter any command for man pages: \c"
<main p>read SELECT
<main p>if test "$SELECT" = ""
<main p>then
<main p>   echo "exit" > formkey
<main p>   exit 1
<main p>fi
<main p>clear
<main p>man $SELECT|pg
<main p>echo "mainmenu" > formkey
<main p>exit 0