Pathmaker Reference Manual

HELPUTIL Utility
Utilities
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Maintaining Changed Versions of Help Text
You are responsible for maintaining the altered version of the help text.
When you use HELPUTIL to change the help database, your generated application’s
help text is no longer identical to the help text in the application’s project catalog.
It is also possible that the help text stored in the application’s project catalog is no
longer identical to the help defined for an individual field in the DDL dictionary.
Example This example shows how to use HELPUTIL to extract help text from a help database
and then use the help text file to update the help database.
In this example, the help database is on $PROJECT.SUBVOL, and the help text is put
in a file named NEWHELP. If NEWHELP already exists, the text is appended to the
end of the file.
1. Back up the help database file on disk:
22> FUP DUP (HELPTXT, HELPPOS, HELPREQ, HELPALT0,
$project.savevol .*
Then, if you need to restore the original help text, use FUP DUP to copy the files
back from savevol to the original location.
2. Extract the text:
23> $release.subvol .HELPUTIL EXTRACT newhelp FROM
$project.subvol *
3. Edit the help text file:
25> TEDIT newhelp
4. Update the help database:
26> $release.subvol. HELPUTIL UPDATE $project.subvol FROM
newhelp