Getting help

Understanding frames

The content area of the scohelp browser is divided into four subpages, known as ``frames'', when viewing the documentation:

top left frame: displays a hierarchy of topic lists
top right frame: displays either an introduction to the topic list on the left or the content
bottom frames: display buttons which affect the content of the top frames

The top-level page, or ``frameset'', that defines these four frames is located in /usr/lib/scohelp/LANG/CONTENTS.html.

To navigate the top frames, use the buttons in the bottom frames.

NOTE: The Back and Forward buttons in each of the bottom frames in the SCOhelp browser behave differently from the buttons with the same names in the browser tool bar and in the Netscape Communicator browser. The SCOhelp frame buttons work within frames, but only with the UnixWare 7 online documentation set. Navigating to pages outside the documentation set might cause the frame buttons to behave in unpredictable ways.

If you leave the SCOhelp documentation, in some circumstances, you might not be able to return to SCOhelp using the Netscape Back button. If this happens, enter the address localhost:457 (or the name of the SCOhelp documentation server) in the ``Location'' field.

Some actions, such as saving and printing documents, affect only the currently selected frame. To select a frame, click on it.

To resize a frame, place the cursor in the border between frames (the cursor changes to a cross-hair) and drag the frame border to a new location.

NOTE: If you resize the browser window, SCOhelp reloads the top-level frameset page (CONTENTS.html); you might lose your context.

To get more information on frames, select Frames Basics.