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" on 04/11/2001 03:30:43 PM To: cc: Subject: RE: WinHelp file I wonder if the cygwin libraries somehow mangle filenames or perform CR-LF -> LF conversion on ascii files? But I've no idea how to test this or what to do about it if so. It's also possible that the configure script has an excessive Unix bias and so fools Hugs into using unix-style filenames even though windows-style filenames would (I think) be acceptable. And, again, I don't know enough about how hugs for windows is implemented to say how likely this is. -- Alastair Reid