AlaMOO User's Guide					Introduction
MOO Interface	Character Options	Getting Around	Communicating	Working with Objects	Objects Help
Creating Objects and Rooms	Xpress Options	Getting Help	Command Summary	Beginner's Guide	QuickStart

Getting help

There are many ways to get help for working in the MOO. This part of the guide will explain how to access different kinds of on-MOO help and offer pointers to some other web resources for getting help with MOO. You might also want to check out the command summary for a quick reference.

On-MOO help

There are three ways that you can get help on the MOO:

• Click on the help button on the button bar and use the help browser
• Click on the light bulb icon that appears in various areas
• Type help commands into the command window

The help browser will be displayed when you click on the help button on the button bar. It looks like this:

You can search for help using the search feature, or click on any of the links to change topics or view different topics. The help will display in the bottom right window.

Clicking on the lightbulb icon

The lightbulb icon will appear in the top left corner of the viewing area for objects that have help text with them. Clicking on the light bulb icon will display help related to that object, whether it is for a special kind of room or for a special kind of object like a recorder.

Typing in help commands

You can type in help commands from the command window to see help displayed in the talk window. Here are some help commands that you can try.

The help index accessed by simply typing 'help' is very extensive. When you type 'help', the MOO gives this message in the talk side of the MOO:

Help is available on the following general topics:
introduction -- what's going on here and some basic commands
index -- index into the help system
players -- setting characteristics of yourself
movement -- moving yourself between rooms
communication -- communicating with other players
manipulation -- moving or using other objects
miscellaneous -- commands that don't fit anywhere else
building -- extending the MOO
programming -- writing code in the MOO programming language
editors -- editing text and code in the MOO
@pagelength -- what to do if lines scroll off your screen too fast @linelength -- what to do if lines are truncated
tinymud -- a list of equivalences between MOO and TinyMUD concepts/commands

Type 'help <topic>' for information on a particular topic.