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    From Peter Flass@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 31 16:17:13 2025
    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.

    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."

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  • From Marcel Mueller@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 1 18:59:39 2025
    Am 01.08.25 um 01:17 schrieb Peter Flass:
    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.

    You can use OS/2 (e.g. in a VM), open the INF file and print all pages
    to a PS or PDF printer.

    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."

    Well, some of them are born again, e.g. Hobbes.


    Marcel

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  • From Peter Flass@21:1/5 to Dave Yeo on Sat Aug 2 14:14:50 2025
    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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