RE: default help text

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Feb-2009, Hall, Benjamin wrote:

| |On 10-Feb-2009, Søren Hauberg wrote:
| |
| || just typing 'help' provides waay too much output. I think it would be
| || better to simply print something like (very much written off 
| |the top of
| || my head):
| 
| I like concise help text.

I went with this:

  For help with individual commands and functions type

    help NAME

  (replace NAME with the name of the command or function you would
  like to learn more about).

  For a more detailed introduction to GNU Octave, please consult the
  manual.  To read the manual from the prompt type

    doc

  GNU Octave is supported and developed by its user community.
  For more information visit http://www.octave.org.


If we put a PDF copy of the manual on the web page, we can link it
from the front page somehow.

The web pages probably need (another) overhaul...

jwe