Displaying Documents by Name

The simplest form of document access is provided by the showme command, which simply displays the document you name. For instance:

showme sun188

would display the "top" page of the document called "sun188" (i.e. the one you are reading now). Using this command is normally easier than entering a full URL for the document.

The showme command displays the document using a WWW browser and will make use of one you already have running if possible. You can specify which browser to use, if required .

If you do not give any directory information, showme will search for the document using the HTX_PATH search path, but you can specify explicitly where the document is if you prefer, as in:

showme ~/mydocs/galaxy_survey

If showme cannot find the document locally, it will try and fetch it from the remote document server instead. You can suppress this behavior using the -l switch if you prefer:

showme -l document

in which case failure to find the document locally will simply result in an error. You can also specify that a remote copy of the document is required using the -r switch, in which case any local copy will be ignored and the remote document server will be asked to supply the document.