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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: Dr. Dobb's 386BSD Reference CD-ROM: Fraud?
Date: 12 Dec 1994 16:04:30 +0100
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<locke@dfw.net> wrote:

>> What kind of suffix is .hlp? [...]

>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.

You've totally missed the point.  Greg was expressing that he neither
has Windoze nor is willing to even give it a shot.
-- 
cheers, J"org                             work:    joerg_wunsch@tcd-dresden.de
                                          private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)