3.1.1 Using the GUI Help System (Section 2.3)

The following should be added after the information note:

  If you want the ANSYS FLUENT online help to open in a web browser other than the default web browser, you must set the FLUENT_HELP_BROWSER environment variable explicitly. The following examples illustrate how to set the online help web browser to be Internet Explorer for Windows, and Netscape for UNIX/Linux:

• For Windows XP, perform the following steps:

  1.   Open the Control Panel dialog box from the Start menu, and make sure it is set to the Classic View.

  2.   Click the System icon to open the System Properties dialog box.

  3.   Click the Environment Variables button in the Advanced tab to open the Environment Variables dialog box.

  4.   Click the New button in the User variables group box to open the New User Variable dialog box.

  5.   Enter FLUENT_HELP_BROWSER for Variable name.

  6.   Enter the path for the Internet Explorer executable (e.g., C: \ Program Files \ Internet Explorer \ iexplore.exe) for Variable value.

  7.   Click OK in the New User Variable dialog box, and then in the remaining dialog boxes.

• For Windows Vista, perform the following steps:

  1.   Click Control Panel in the Start menu. Make sure that the dialog box that opens is set to the Classic View.

  2.   Click the User Accounts icon.

  3.   Click Change my environment variables in the Tasks list to open the Environment Variables dialog box.

  4.   Click the New button in the User variables group box to open the New User Variable dialog box.

  5.   Enter FLUENT_HELP_BROWSER for Variable name.

  6.   Enter the path for the Internet Explorer executable (e.g., C: \ Program Files \ Internet Explorer \ iexplore.exe) for Variable value.

  7.   Click OK in the New User Variable dialog box, and then in the remaining dialog boxes.

• For UNIX/Linux, type the command appropriate for your shell before you launch ANSYS FLUENT from that shell. You may need to type this command every time, unless you add it to your startup script file (e.g., your .cshrc file); contact your ANSYS FLUENT support engineer for assistance.
  • For the C shell and its derivatives:

    setenv FLUENT_HELP_BROWSER /usr/local/bin/netscape

  • For the Korn shell (or one that is compatible to it):

    export FLUENT_HELP_BROWSER=/usr/local/bin/netscape

  • For the Bourne shell (or one that is compatible to it):

    FLUENT_HELP_BROWSER=/usr/local/bin/netscape export FLUENT_HELP_BROWSER

Opening the help systems when running FLUENT on HP-UX Itanium will result in the system hanging. In order to avoid this, reset the value for LD_PRELOAD in the FLUENT console (putenv "LD_PRELOAD" "") before accessing the help system.