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Subject: Re: Dr. Dobb's 386BSD Reference CD-ROM: Fraud?
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 94 04:40:47 PDT
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In article <D04Lwp.73z@lemis.de>, <grog@lemis.de> writes:

> This looks like the stuff.  Let's look at the .articles directory:
> 
>      -rw-rw-r--   1 root     wheel       21724 Oct  9 10:16 bsdfit.hlp
>      -rw-rw-r--   1 root     wheel       73046 Oct  9 10:16 c386bsd2.hlp
>      -rw-rw-r--   1 root     wheel       45210 Oct  9 10:16 com386ke.hlp
>      -rw-rw-r--   1 root     wheel       40612 Oct  9 10:16 comptool.hlp
> 
> What kind of suffix is .hlp?  Looks like it should be some kind of
> on-line help, but that's not appropriate for articles.  The 'file'
> program doesn't help--it just claims "data", and looking at the files
> doesn't say much either.

Greg,

All of the times I have encountered *.HLP files, they have been used in the
Windows 3.1x environment.  As far as I know, you should be able to access the
CD from within Windows and pull up the .hlp files with the File Manager.

Windows has a built in viewing program that formats these file types
automatically.

Anyway, let me know.

Jon