Description of problem: Starting help spawns an xterm (with title "sh") which doesn't disappear. Evidently to run htmlview. It doesn't even disappear when htmlview exits... it evidently is running "more" on the htmlview output, and waits for you to press space. (And incidentally gnome-help-browser started by htmlview on RHL 7.2 can't even cope properly with /opt/ecos/ecos-2.0b1/html/index.html - it adds in extra bullets.)
This bug has moved to http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85588