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help

help

The help command goes to the first card of the HyperCard Help stack.

HyperCard sends the help command to the current card when the user chooses Help from the Go menu (or presses Command-?).

Note: The command go help is equivalent to go stack "help", while the help command tries to execute go stack "HyperCard Help".

You can handle the help message as follows:

on help

  statements

end help

Placeholders

statements

Any return-separated list of built-in commands, user-defined handlers, or keywords that are part of a message or function handler.

put "Hello world"   -- built-in command

get total(field 1)  -- function call

global HelpInfo     -- keyword

help

help

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statements