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Help

The Help directive allows you to define an unlimited number of help messages or image specifications that reside in a file (or files). It is called by the [help item] tag, where item is the first line of a help file entry which looks like:

 help1
 This is help item one. It ends after a blank line, and
 is called by a [help help1] element embedded in a MiniVend page.
 
 help2
 This is help item two. It ends after a blank line, and
 is called by a [help help2] element embedded in a MiniVend page.

If the file (or the entry) does not exist at program configuration time, the tag is simply stripped. The line in the catalog.cfg file takes the form of the directive, followed by any number of vend-style file names (relative to the PageDir, with no .html suffix). See the demo for an example of how it is used.

    Help  help/hintfile

The Help directive is vaguely deprecated in favor of arbitrary databases and Variable.

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