I have a number of help files from a HP-UX machine that I need to view on a
PC or Sun. `uname -s -r -v -m` gives "HP-UX B.10.20 E 9000/785", and the
file extensions are .sys, .hv, .hvk, .ht, and .tif.

Can anyone suggest a compatible viewer for these files? I am way out of my
depth on HP hardware and software.

Thanks!

Well, file extensions have no systemic purpose in UNIX so, in general, they
are meaningless other than as conventions for humans who can follow them or
not follow them as they will. That being said, only two of those mean
anything to me from the PC world and one I found on http://www.filext.com/:

SYS is typically a PC system file (e.g. CONFIG.SYS).

HT shows up in the filext database as being a HyperTerminal data file as
well as a "BrailleNote Visual Display File" so take your pick. (Odds are
it's the former, I would say.)

TIF is a graphic file in TIFF format. Any reasonably robust graphics viewer
should be able to handle viewing that.

Based on those three identifiable file extensions from the PC world, it
looks like maybe someone dumped some PC files on your HP-UX system at some
point. I would venture to say these are not "HP-UX files" at all.


On 9/29/04 2:47 PM, in article LjE6d.3073$Th4.1023@fe44.usenetserver.com,
"VAX Collector" <fake@aol.com> wrote:

>
> I have a number of help files from a HP-UX machine that I need to view on a
> PC or Sun. `uname -s -r -v -m` gives "HP-UX B.10.20 E 9000/785", and the
> file extensions are .sys, .hv, .hvk, .ht, and .tif.
>
> Can anyone suggest a compatible viewer for these files? I am way out of my
> depth on HP hardware and software.
>
> Thanks!
>

--
Jeff Traigle
traigle@umich.edu
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~traigle/

VAX Collector <fake@aol.com> wrote:

|I have a number of help files from a HP-UX machine that I need to view on a
|PC or Sun. `uname -s -r -v -m` gives "HP-UX B.10.20 E 9000/785", and the
|file extensions are .sys, .hv, .hvk, .ht, and .tif.

|Can anyone suggest a compatible viewer for these files? I am way out of my
|depth on HP hardware and software.

Those are old format CDE help files. You might be able to view them
with /usr/dt/bin/dthelpview on a Sun. Check out
man -M /usr/dt/man dthelpview

--
Mike Stroyan, mike.stroyan@hp.com

Mike Stroyan <stroyan@hpstryn.fc.hp.com> wrote in
news:NGW8d.211$pf5.48@news.cpqcorp.net:

> VAX Collector <fake@aol.com> wrote:
>
>|I have a number of help files from a HP-UX machine that I need to view
>|on a PC or Sun. `uname -s -r -v -m` gives "HP-UX B.10.20 E 9000/785",
>|and the file extensions are .sys, .hv, .hvk, .ht, and .tif.
>
>|Can anyone suggest a compatible viewer for these files? I am way out
>|of my depth on HP hardware and software.
>
> Those are old format CDE help files. You might be able to view them
> with /usr/dt/bin/dthelpview on a Sun. Check out
> man -M /usr/dt/man dthelpview
>


Thanks! That is exactly what I needed!

Best Regards,
Clint