Displays online help on debugger commands and selected topics.

                                   NOTE

       This command is not available in the VSI DECwindows Motif
       for OpenVMS user interface to the debugger. Help on commands
       is available from the Help menu in a DECwindows debugger
       window.

    Format

      HELP  topic [subtopic [ . . . ]]

1  –  Parameters

 topic

    Specifies the name of a debugger command or topic about which you
    want help. You can specify the asterisk (*)  wildcard character,
    either singly or within a name.

 subtopic

    Specifies a subtopic, qualifier, or parameter about which you
    want further information. You can specify the asterisk wildcard
    (*),  either singly or within a name.

2  –  Description

    The debugger's online help facility provides the following
    information about any debugger command, including a description
    of the command, its format, explanations of any parameters
    that can be specified with the command, and explanations of any
    qualifiers that can be specified with the command.

    To get information about a particular qualifier or parameter,
    specify it as a subtopic. If you want information about all
    qualifiers, specify "qualifier" as a subtopic. If you want
    information about all parameters, specify "parameter" as
    a subtopic. If you want information about all parameters,
    qualifiers, and any other subtopics related to a command, specify
    an asterisk (*)  as a subtopic.

    In addition to help on commands, you can get online help on
    various topics such as screen features, keypad mode, and so on.
    Topic keywords are listed along with the commands when you type
    HELP.

    For summary information about new features with this release of
    the debugger, see help on New_Features.

    For help on the predefined keypad-key functions, type Help
    Keypad_Definitions_CI. Also, use the SHOW KEY command to
    determine the current key definitions.

3  –  Example

  DBG> HELP GO

      This command displays help for the GO command.