helpmidas(1)

💖 helpmidas(1) — the glow-up edition 💖

General Commands Manual · standalone GUI help for MIDAS · yes bestie, we're reading a manual together, it's a whole thing

✨ NAME ✨

helpmidas — standalone GUI help for MIDAS. that's it, that's the job. she opens the help window and she slays 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

helpmidas
[ -h midashome ] [ -r midvers ]
[ -d display ] [ -m mid_work ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so helpmidas literally starts up a standalone GUI help for MIDAS. no cap. she's the help, she's the GUI, she's doing both, main character energy fr 💅

Run her with no arguments and she kicks off a MIDAS help session using the default definitions. some of those definitions can be swapped out with arguments on the command line of helpmidas, or by environment variables. and here's the rule, bestie, write it on your mirror: arguments on the command line are taken with preference to environment variables. command line wins. always. periodt. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

so the tea is: helpmidas has been configured by the operator at installation time to start the binary XHelp.exe, which lives in $MIDASHOME0/$MIDVERS0/gui/execdirectory (that path is defined internally in the script, iykyk, don't come for her). but you can point her at alternative releases using these:

• -h midashome — home directory for MIDAS. it's an absolute pathname that contains, at least, one release of MIDAS. it may also contain subdirectories for demo and calibration data. so like, the whole neighborhood 🌈
• -r midvers — the release of MIDAS to be executed. heads up: it must be a subdirectory under midashome. no escaping the family home, sorry babe 🙈
• -d display — specifies another X server for the display and the graphical MIDAS windows. ooooh remote, we love a long-distance moment ✨

⚠️ NOTE: be aware of allowed access to a remote X server using the xhost(1) command. seriously, check it, or you'll be staring at a blank window wondering why the vibe is off 💀

• -m mid_work — specifies the MIDAS startup directory (default: $HOME/midwork). this GUI will create this directory if it does not exist, and uses it to keep some temporary files. she's proactive like that, she's making her own little corner 🍓

💜 ENVIRONMENT 💜

helpmidas can also pull the following definitions from the environment, with the same performance as the arguments we just described. same energy, different delivery system:

• MIDASHOME — home directory for MIDAS.
• MIDVERS — release of MIDAS.
• DISPLAY — X server for the display and graphical MIDAS windows.
• MID_WORK — startup directory for MIDAS.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

inmidas(1), gomidas(1)

and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 💖✨

this page came to you from MIDAS, dated 07 July 1993 — an actual vintage icon, older than most of us, and still serving looks. mwah 🎀