.TH VH 1 "10 May 1993" "UNIX"
.IX "vh" "" "vh \(em -- volks-hypertext browser for the Jargon File"
.ds ud /usr/local/lib/vh
-.ds fv "2.9.6
.SH NAME
vh \- volks-hypertext browser for the Jargon File
.SH SYNOPSIS
+\fBjargon\fR [-cfgimrs] [-b key]
\fBvh\fR [-cfgimrs] [-b key] [document]
.SH DESCRIPTION
This program is a handy hypertext browser, originally written for the
In the text file only, if you click on the main screen (i.e. not
on the scrollbar or the prompt line) outside of a reference in
curly braces, the program will page forward one screen.
-
+.SH OTHER OPTIONS
The -i option enables an incremental-lookup feature (but note that
this feature may not be available in all ports). In this mode, lookup
and string search both behave like an Emacs incremental search. That
.P
The Jargon File can be obtained by FTP from various archive sites.
A copy lives more or less permanently as
-.I pub/jargon298.ascii
+.I pub/jargon?????.txt
at
.I prep.ai.mit.edu
-(18.71.0.38).
+(18.71.0.38), where `?????' is replaced by the current version number.
Future updates will be made available there.
.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
.TP 3.5i
.I VHPATH
-Search path for vh documents. Defaults to ".:/usr/lib/vh"
+Search path for vh documents. Defaults to "\*(ud".
.SH BUGS
If a selection wraps around the right margin, only a mouse click on
the part before the line wrap will chase it; clicks on the portion
Crocking around this in the obvious way would introduce screen flicker for
everybody. Use BS.
-Because UNIX's pseudorandom-number generator isn't very good, the
-fortune-cookie mode under UNIX isn't either.
+Because BSD UNIX's pseudorandom-number generator isn't very good, the
+fortune-cookie mode under that UNIX isn't either.
Output from a -f list may include alphabetical section headers which
are not, strictly speaking, part of the desired text.
Concept, DOS support, and database code from the MS-DOS `jargon'
program by Raymond D. Gardner <FidoNet 1:104/89.2>; new features,
docs, and curses(3)-using UNIX code by Eric S. Raymond
-<eric@snark.thyrsus.com>.
+<esr@snark.thyrsus.com>.
.SH SEE ALSO
-.I The New Hacker's Dictionary,
-by Eric S. Raymond (ed.), MIT Press 1991, ISBN 0-262-68069-6. The
-Jargon File (version 2.9.6), nicely typeset and bound with additional
+.I The New Hacker's Dictionary (Second Edition),
+by Eric S. Raymond (ed.), MIT Press 1993, ISBN 0-262-68079-3. The
+Jargon File (version 3.0.0), nicely typeset and bound with additional
front matter.
Please email your Jargon File entries and corrections to