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Re: OS/2 Redbooks

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Peter Flass wrote:
> 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.
>

To be honest, it has been some years since I installed and tried it, 
looked very similar to NewView. At the time I installed the whole  of 
Free Pascal and there it was. I didn't really have much use for it on 
Linux and eventually I changed dists or such and no longer had it.
Possible things have changed in the Free Pascal world and they've moved 
away from INF, which I doubt but who knows.
Looking, it seems to be hosted at https://github.com/graemeg/fpGUI and 
hasn't had a commit in 4 years. Perhaps you need to install the fpGUI to 
get it.
Dave

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  Re: OS/2 Redbooks Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2025-08-01 21:42 -0700
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