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Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide > Chapter 7 Desktop
Search PathsHelp Search Path |
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The help search path directs the desktop to search specified locations for files containing help information that will be registered on your system. The default help search path includes personal, system-wide, and built-in locations. The default language is C.
When a location is added to the application search path, the appropriate help subdirectory is automatically added to the help search path (see “How the Application Search Path Affects the Database, Icon, and Help Search Paths”). For example, if the application server hosta: is added to the application search path, the directory hosta:/etc/dt/appconfig/help/language is automatically added to the help search path. The help search path is assembled from the built-in locations and the following input variables:
Use these input variables to specify locations outside the application search path. The assembled help search path is specified by the output variable DTHELPSEARCHPATH. The syntax for the variables DTSPSYSHELP and DTSPUSERHELP is:
where location can have the syntax:
To specify a location on another system, use its network file name—for example, /nfs/servera/projects/help. The value of the help search path (DTHELPSEARCHPATH) is created by assembling the following locations, listed in order of precedence:
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