The values entered in each cell can be labels, numbers, or other insets. You can also enter arithmetic formulas, causing table to act as a spreadsheet. There are many other types of insets which can be put in AUIS documents. It is not a terminal emulator, but it does provide standard shell effects such as scrolling back, copying the previous command, and filename completion. In addition, since it is based on the AUIS text editor, it provides all the editing capacity normally available with text documents, and with the same interface.
Help is a browser for on-line help files.
The help application can display these files, and follow the embedded hypertext links that these help files contain. It can also display standard Unix man pages. It can be configured to search any set of help and man directories, so the help system you install can easily be extended.