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CoCoA's online help is roughly divided into two parts: a manual and a
list of commands. The manual includes a tutorial which can be started
by entering
?tutorial
If you are a new user of CoCoA, the tutorial is a good place to start.
To see the titles of the sections of the online manual, enter
H.Toc(); to see a list of commands, enter
H.Commands("").
Each section of the manual and each command is uniquely identified by
a set of keywords. The set of keywords always includes the title of
the section or the title of the command. The online help command
?
takes a string from the user and searches for a match among the
keywords. For instance,
?gbasis will display information
about the function
GBasis
. Note that when using
?, the keyword
does not appear in quotes. Also, a semicolon is not required.
The command
?? will return a list of entries in the manual that
contain a given keyword. For instance,
??gbasis returns
See:
GB.Start_GBasis
GBasis
ReducedGBasis
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Each command is associated with a list of topics. (This applies only
to commands, not to sections of the manual.) The online help function
H.Commands takes a string from the user and searches for all matches
among these topics. For each match, the title of the command and a
brief description is displayed. For instance,
H.Commands("poly")
will find all commands having to do with polynomials. Information
about a specific command can then be retrieved with
?. A list of
topics is provided by
H.Commands(), with no argument.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Searches are case insensitive and your keyword need
only be a substring to make a match.
For a thorough description of the search function
?, type
? ? with
a space between the two questions marks.
Tips on using online help and summary of the online help functions
appear below. Enter
H.Browse(); to see the next section.