                  General Help

Atari Ghostscript provides a limited amount
of on-line help.  Several general help files
can be accessed through the "About ST-GS"
dialog (including this one, which is also
invoked by the <Help> key).

A brief explanation of each menu item can be
obtained by holding down any meta key (ctrl,
shift, or alt) while selecting the menu item
with the mouse.

The files containing the help information
are plain ASCII files located in the "help"
directory of the Atari Ghostscript distri-
bution.  The help files can be personalized,
as long as no tabs or special characters are
added, and no line has width greater than 80
characters.

In order for Ghostscript to be able to find
the help files, the path to the help dir-
ectory must be specified by the GS_HELPDIR
or the GS_LIB environment variable.  The
default path is f:\gs\help.  Placing the
help directory near the beginning of the
path will speed the display of help windows
considerably.  If you are not familiar with
environment variables, read the file
"readme.st" in the "doc" directory of the
distribution.  The file "use.doc" is also
recommended reading for casual Ghostscript
users.

Each ASCII help file has a counterpart which
is formatted in PostScript.  Selecting the
"PS Help" menu option will cause a Post-
Script help file to be executed by the
interpreter whenever help is requested.  The
PostScript help files are created from the
ASCII files by the "hlptops.ttp" utility
program included in the Atari Ghostscript
distribution.  This program should be used
to update the PostScript file corresponding
to any ASCII help files that are changed.
