They are a series of helps designed to give you online information about the components of SMIT used to construct dialogs and menus. SMIT helps reside in a database, just as the SMIT executable code resides in a database. Man pages Message Catalog Softcopy Libraries . Each of these methods provides a different way to retrieve SMIT helps from the SMIT help database. Man Pages Method Prerequisite Tasks or Conditions Create a new SMIT task that requires help information.
Procedure Using any editor, create a file and enter help text inside the file.
The file must adhere to the format specified by the man command. Put only one set of help information in a file. Give the help text file a title as specified by the man command. Place the help text file in the correct place in the manual subdirectory. Test the newly created file to ensure it works using the man command.