About the "tips" help system(for Linux/Unix systems)

The other "item" in the previous page is "tips.tar.gz".  This
"tar-ball" contains a bash script, "tips", and a bunch of short
files with suffic ".doc".  Clicking on "The tips tar-ball itself"
will download "tips.tar.gz", and running
	zcat tips.tar.gz | tar xf -
will unpack the file.

Even a person unfamiliar with bash syntax will be able to see that
"tips" is designed to call various files -- they must have suffix .doc --
according to the argument that tips is given.

Installation advice:  as root, put the file "tips" into /usr/local/bin,
and make it executable.  Put all the other files -- those with suffix
.doc -- into /usr/local/doc.

The main feature of this help system is that it can -- and hence should --
be added to.  Any user can make a directory doc/ under her/his home
directory and put any file there that (s)he wants to.  For "tips" to
see it, it should have a .doc suffix.  And it is recommended that it be
short, since "tips" uses the Unix command 'cat' to display the chosen
file.

These files are placed under the GPL license by their creator, Alan McConnell.