The help facility allows one to look up help pages which where extracted from the standard Tcl manual pages and Tcl scripts during Tcl installation. Help files are struc- tured as a multilevel tree of subjects and help pages. Help files are found by searching directories named help in the directories listed in the auto_path variable. All of the files in the list of help directories form a vir- tual root of the help tree. This method allows multiple applications to provide help trees without having the files reside in the same directory. The help facility can be accessed in two ways, as interac- tive commands in the Extended Tcl shell or as an interac- tive Tk-based program (if you have built Extended Tcl with Tk). To run the Tk-based interactive help program: tclhelp ?addpaths? Where addpaths are additional paths to search for help directories. By default, only the auto_path used by tclhelp is search. This will result in help on Tcl, Extended Tcl and Tk. The following interactive Tcl commands and options are provided with the help package: help Help, without arguments, lists of all the help sub- jects and pages under the current help subject. help subject Displays all of help pages and lower level subjects (if any exist) under the subject subject. help subject/helppage Display the specified help page. The help output is passed through a simple pager if output exceeds 23 lines, pausing waiting for a return to be entered. If any other character is entered, the output is terminated. helpcd ?subject? Change the current subject, which is much like the Unix current directory. If subject is not speci- fied, return to the top-level of the help tree. Help subject path names may also include ``..'' elements. helppwd Displays the current help subject. help help | ? Displays help on the help facility at any directory level. apropos pattern This command locates subjects by searching their one-line descriptions for a pattern. Apropos is useful when you can remember part of the name or description of a command, and want to search through the one-line summaries for matching lines. Full regular expressions may be specified (see the regexp command). These procedures are provided by Extended Tcl.