SAS System Options under Windows

HELPTOC System Option: Windows

Specifies the table of contents files for the SAS Help and Documentation.

Default:	/help/helpnav.hlp/config.txt /help/common.hlp/toc.htm common.hhc
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation
Category:	Environment control: Help
PROC OPTIONS GROUP=	HELP
Windows specifics:	HTML-Help-TOC-pathname

Syntax
Details
See Also

Syntax

-HELPTOC <(> "TOC-pathname-1" <"TOC-pathname-2" "TOC-pathname-3")>

TOC-pathname

specifies a partial pathname for the table of contents that is to be used by SAS Help and Documentation. The TOC-pathname must be a valid Windows pathname. Pathnames must be enclosed in quotation marks. When more than one pathname is specified, use parentheses around the list of pathnames.

The TOC-pathname can be any or all of the following:

/help/applet-TOC-filename

specifies the partial pathname of the table of contents file that is to be used by the SAS Help and Documentation Java applet under a UNIX environment. applet-TOC-filename must have a file extension of .txt, and it must reside in a path that is specified by the HELPLOC system option. The default pathname is /help/helpnav.hlp/config.txt.

See the default table of contents file for the format that is required for an index file.

/help/accessible-TOC-filename

specifies the partial pathname of an accessible table of contents file that is to be used by SAS Help and Documentation under UNIX, OpenVMS, or z/OS environments. An accessible table of contents file is an HTML file that can be used by Web browsers. accessible-TOC-filename must have a file extension of .htm and it must reside in a path that is specified by the HELPLOC system option. The default pathname is /help/common.hlp/toc.htm.

See the default table of contents file for the format that is required for a table of contents.

HTML-Help-TOC-pathname

specifies the complete pathname to the Microsoft HTML Help table of contents that is to be used by SAS Help and Documentation in Windows environments. The default pathname is common.hhc. For information about creating an index for Microsoft HTML Help, see your Microsoft HTML Help documentation.

Details

Use the HELPTOC option if you have a customized table of contents that you want to use instead of the table of contents that SAS supplies. If you use one configuration file to start SAS under more than one operating environment, you can specify all of the partial pathnames in the HELPTOC option. The order of the pathnames is not important, although only one pathname of each type can be specified.

When the HELPTOC option specifies the pathname for UNIX, OpenVMS, and z/OS operating environments, SAS determines the complete path by replacing /help/ in the partial pathname with the pathname that is specified in the HELPLOC option. If the HELPLOC option contains more than one pathname, each path is searched for the table of contents.

For example, when HELPTOC is /help/common.hlp/mytoc.htm and the value of HELPLOC is /u/myhome/myhelp, the complete path to the table of contents is /u/myhome/myhelp/common.hlp/mytoc.htm.