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Re: OS/2 Redbooks

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On 8/1/25 21:42, Dave Yeo wrote:
> Peter Flass wrote:
>> I'm looking for versions of the OS/2 Redbookks I can use on my Linux
>> system. Either:
>>   1. PDF versions
>>   2. Something that will read the .boo or .inf files on Linux
>> Searches seem to lead to an endless loop of links to email that points
>> to a dead page at IBM. I'm hoping someone has something.
> 
> Free Pascal uses INF for help and documentation and has the DocView 
> program (updated from OS/2's NewView), see for example https:// 
> forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=10335.0
> 
>>
>> By the way, all OS/2 sites seems to be dying out one by one.
>> "The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit
>> again in our lifetime."
> 
> Some of them are hosted on Netlabs where a hard drive recently died. New 
> ones are supposed to arrive Monday and then the array will need rebuilding.
> Dave
> 

Dave, thank you. This sounds just perfect. However, This is getting into 
the tall grass, I don't pretend to understand any of it)

I have gotten all the mime types, icons, etc, and the .INF files now 
show the appropriate icon. However, when I double-click I get "There is 
no application installed for Compiled INF Help File files." I don't see 
the docview binary anywhere, and I obviously didn't install it.

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