NAME¶
helpmidas - Standalone GUI help for MIDAS.
SYNOPSIS¶
helpmidas
[
-h midashome ] [
-r midvers ]
[
-d display ] [
-m mid_work ]
DESCRIPTION¶
helpmidas starts a standalone GUI help for MIDAS.
Without arguments,
helpmidas initiates a MIDAS help session with default
definitions. Some of these definitions can be modified with arguments in the
command line of
helpmidas or by environment variables. Arguments in the
command line are taken with preference to environment variables.
OPTIONS¶
helpmidas has been configured by the operator at installation time to
start the binary XHelp.exe located in
$MIDASHOME0/$MIDVERS0/gui/execdirectory (defined internally in the
script). However alternative releases can be specified using the:
- -h midashome
- Home directory for MIDAS. Absolute pathname containing, at least, one
release of MIDAS. It may also contain subdirectories for demo and
calibration data.
- -r midvers
- Release of MIDAS to be executed. It must be a subdirectory under
midashome.
- -d display
- Specifies another X server for the display and graphical MIDAS windows (
NOTE: be aware of allowed access to a remote X server using the
xhost(1) command.)
- -m mid_work
- Specifies the MIDAS startup directory (default: $HOME/midwork). This GUI
will create this directory if it does not exist and uses in to keep some
temporary files.
ENVIRONMENT¶
helpmidas can also use the following definitions in the environment with
the same performance as previous described arguments.
- MIDASHOME
- Home directory for MIDAS.
- MIDVERS
- Release of MIDAS.
- DISPLAY
- X server for the display and graphical MIDAS windows.
- MID_WORK
- Startup directory for MIDAS.
SEE ALSO¶
inmidas(1),gomidas(1)