Subject: The Help System

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 10:08:18 -0800

Well, we are trying to decipher the mysteries of the help system on the GodNet,
and since their is no help on help, I thought I would ask here.

1)  How do you modify a help message in the help system (add, change, or
delete)?  Specifically, we would like to add a few new things and remove the 
LambdaMoo specific helps.

Hmmm...well, that's a mouthful I suppose.  Also, we fixed some database errors
in $time_utils if anyone is interested.

-- 
Clay W. Luther                  [email-masked]
System Manager                  Center for Network Neuroscience
University of North Texas       PO Box 5218 Denton, Texas 76203
817/565-3896,3472               GB-Free in '93.

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From: Pavel Curtis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 11:56:01 -0800

> LambdaMoo specific helps.

Take a look at the description of $generic_help; it describes the protocol
pretty well.  If that doesn't cover it for you, let me know and I'll say more.

> Also, we fixed some database errors in $time_utils if anyone is interested.

I'm sure we'd like to see any bug fixes you've got.  Feel free to send them to
MOO-Cows if you can't send them to *Wizards on LambdaMOO.

	Pavel

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 12:19:25 -0800

> pretty well.  If that doesn't cover it for you, let me know and I'll say more.

Unfortunately, $generic_help is not a defined property on #0.  But, you must
have meant $help....In any case, it looks reasonable.

> MOO-Cows if you can't send them to *Wizards on LambdaMOO.

These were trivial.  Both $time_utils:day() and $time_utils:month() need to
have the time_utils container redefined to $time_utils (the code assumes
time_utils = #some_object_not_in_a_core_database).

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From: Judy Anderson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 12:26:16 -0800

Clay's core is older than $generic_help...

However the procedure for adding help entries is simple.  Simply add a
new property to $help with the name you'd like to have.  Help
properties in their simplest invocation are simply a list of strings.
Check $help.description for gory details.  (In general, looking at
various $ utilities will provide some documentation.)

yduJ (Judy Anderson)        [email-masked]      'yduJ' rhymes with 'fudge'
   Join the League for Programming Freedom, [email-masked]

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From: Judy Anderson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 13:00:20 -0800

>time_utils = #some_object_not_in_a_core_database).

Fixed on LambdaMOO.  Actually, what I did was to remove the variable
entirely and make these references into "this".