A.4. - Help files
There are a number of files in the help directory. The contents of the files called news and motd are printed each time C-PLOT starts. The file news is included in the distribution and will be overwritten when C-PLOT is updated. You also can write your own help files. Any text file in the help directory is accessible through C-PLOT's help facility. The help file help_fmt includes instructions for setting up help files so they will be formatted for your screen or window size and will print properly. The formatting syntax is based on the nroff/troff utilities; nroff/troff macros and a Makefile are included in the help_tools directory to assist in producing hard copies of the files. See the comments in the Makefile and head.man files, in the help_tools directory, for more information on printing.