
1 tools
!   11/01/80 tools.hlp - help file to explain the use of the tools VOS
A  set  of utilities which provide powerful text processing capabilities
as well as other capabilities.  A typical invocation is:

tool arguments [<inputfile] [>outputfile] [?errorfile]

Upon invocation, three io connections  are  established  for  the  tool,
termed  standard  input, standard output, and errout.  If no redirection
has been specified in the command line, these  connections  are  all  to
the  user's  terminal.   The  arguments are specific to each tool.  Each
tool will divulge the required arguments if invoked as

tool ?

A list of available tools may be  had  through  the  invocation  of  the
`intro'  command.   Further  help  for  a  particular tool may be had by
using the `man' command.  From DCL, the following symbol definitions  do
the trick:

$ intro:==$st_bin:intro
$ man:==$st_bin:man

