                  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 included in the GS_LIB env-
ironment 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.
