dhelp(1)

💖 dhelp — the Debian online help bestie 💖

okay so welcome to dhelp(1), the Debian Linux manual page that's about to become your new hyperfixation. it's the Debian online help system and it's lowkey iconic. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

dhelp — Debian online help, aka your little gateway to all the docs 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dhelp [string]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one optional string and you're off 🎀

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so bestie, here's the tea: you can use the dhelp program to access the Debian online help system. this online help is based on HTML documents that are registered to the dhelp system. no cap.

and if you've installed the swish++ package, you can search all HTML documents with this program. searching? slayed. 🔥

to browse the index of the registered HTML documents, just enter:

dhelp

to search the HTML documents without a HTTP server, you can use:

dhelp string

and if you've installed a HTTP server, you can browse the dhelp index under the following address:

http://localhost/doc/HTML/index.html

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT 🧚

• BROWSER — use $BROWSER as WWW browser. yes, that's the whole thing. it's giving "let the environment decide" and honestly? respect 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• dhelp_parse(8) — go read that one too, iykyk 👑

💌 AUTHOR 💌

this package was written by Marco Budde (Budde@tu-harburg.de) and modified by Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de>. legends only, periodt. 😭💖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was Debian, dated 23 September 2004, and you just read dhelp(1) — go forth and browse that index, you absolute icon ⭐🎀🦋💅