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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.development:2764 comp.os.386bsd.apps:1523 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!convex!dfw.net!news From: locke@dfw.net Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Dr. Dobb's 386BSD Reference CD-ROM: Fraud? Date: Sun, 04 Dec 94 04:40:47 PDT Organization: DFWNet -- Public Internet Access Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3bs60i$19l@dfw.net> References: <D04Lwp.73z@lemis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pt20.dfw.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from NetManage 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