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Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide

Help Search Path

The help search path directs the desktop to search specified locations for files containing help information that will be registered on your system.

Default Help Search Path

The default help search path includes personal, system-wide, and built-in locations. The default language is C.

Personal location—HomeDirectory/.dt/help

System-wide location—/etc/dt/appconfig/help/language

Built-in location—/usr/dt/appconfig/help/language

How the Application Search Path Affects the Help Search Path

When a location is added to the application search path, the appropriate help subdirectory is automatically added to the help search path (see How the Application Search Path Affects the Database, Icon, and Help Search Paths).

For example, if the application server hosta: is added to the application search path, the directory hosta:/etc/dt/appconfig/help/language is automatically added to the help search path.

Help Search Path Environment Variables

The help search path is assembled from the built-in locations and the following input variables:

DTSPSYSHELP—system-wide help search path input variable

DTSPUSERHELP—personal help search path input variable

Use these input variables to specify locations outside the application search path.

The assembled database search path is specified by the output variable DTHELPSEARCHPATH.

Syntax for the Help Search Path Input Variables

The syntax for the variables DTSPSYSHELP and DTSPUSERHELP is: 

VARIABLE=location [,location...]

where location can have the syntax:

/path—specifies a directory on the local (session server) system. Use this syntax to add a local directory.

To specify a location on another system, use its network file name—for example, /nfs/servera/projects/help.

How the Help Search Path Is Assembled

The value of the help search path (DTHELPSEARCHPATH) is created by assembling the following locations, listed in order of precedence: