I did think of this. I also thought of scrambling during
downloading. I downloaded hugs.hlp three times. The first two,
I ran a diff on and they were the same--neither worked. The
third time I carefully avoided all contact with Cygwin.
I double clicked on the WinHelp link on the Hugs web page and
netscape tried to read it with it's winhelp application. It
gave mostly garbage, but ending in
---
¡hc ?þ.xBá)iìnf)ÙÐ0÷#µ½á`f :: %
)M³³c¥ cT/
ß" ©©é;g ? names [<pattern> ...]cal summary of Hugs 98<path>
----
Not to be stopped by so obvious a problem with the original
file, I downloaded it into a directory that has never been touched
by Cygwin. Then, with windows explorer, I double clicked on
this new copy. Same message as before: ..not a windows help
file.
?
Perhaps help files have different binary formats in win98, win2000,
and NT? Darned if I know. I have been pretty careful not to
learn too much about either NT or win98 so far. And nothing
about win2000 or winME (Once I was pretty good at win3.1, though).
THanks for the try,
John Velman
John Velman
"Alastair Reid"