Help finds and displays information about Andrew and its programs as well as about the UNIX operating system. Files can also be printed from a menu option on the File card of ez menus. A document created with ez can have many different insets in it. For example, you can put a table inset directly into a document and edit it in place. Several insets are also applications, meaning that they can be run as programs separately, without being inside an ez document.
Most applications are editors of different types of information.
The following insets are both embeddable insets and standalone applications. With the toolkit, programmers can create new objects that can be embedded as easily as those that come with the system. One way to create a new inset is with the createinset command. The Andrew Message System is the system by which mail and bulletin board messages are transmitted on Andrew. The Andrew Message System also provides a White Pages facility that can be used by mail-sending programs for matching user names to user ids so that mail can be sent to Andrew users by their names as well as by their user ids.