2.7 The Help System

The contents of the GAP manuals is also available as on-line help.

?book:section

The help command ? displays the section with the name section in the manual book on the screen. For example

?tutorial:The Help system
will display this section on the screen. When the whole section has been displayed the normal GAP prompt gap> is shown and normal GAP interaction resumes.

??topic

?? looks up topic in GAP's index and prints all the index entries that contain the substring topic. Then you can decide which section is the one you are actually interested in and request this one.

A complete list of commands for the help system is available in Section Help of the reference manual.

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GAP 4 manual
February 2000