--- /dev/null
+## Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Søren Hauberg
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} __additional_help_message__ ()
+## Undocumented internal function.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function msg = __additional_help_message__ ()
+
+ if (suppress_verbose_help_message ())
+ msg = "";
+ else
+ msg = "\
+Additional help for built-in functions and operators is\n\
+available in the on-line version of the manual. Use the command\n\
+`doc <topic>' to search the manual index.\n\
+\n\
+Help and information about Octave is also available on the WWW\n\
+at http://www.octave.org and via the help@octave.org\n\
+mailing list.\n";
+ endif
+
+endfunction