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  84 NAME="CONFIG-TOOL-GETTING-HELP">Chapter 16. Getting Help</H1
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 105 >Context-sensitive Help for Configuration Items</A
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 110 >Methods of Displaying HTML Help</A
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 115 >The <SPAN
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 117 >eCos</SPAN
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 120 >Configuration Tool</SPAN
 121 > contains
 122 several methods for accessing online help.</P
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 128 NAME="CONFIG-TOOL-CONTEXT-HELP-DIALOGS">Context-sensitive Help for Dialogs</H1
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 130 >Most dialogs displayed by the <SPAN
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 135 >Configuration Tool</SPAN
 136 > are supplied
 137 with context-sensitive help. You can then get help relating
 138 to any control within the current dialog box by</P
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 176           button. You can press this to display a more general
 177           description of the function of the dialog box as a whole.
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