INF/HLP (OS/2)

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File Format
Name INF/HLP (OS/2)
Ontology
Extension(s) .inf, .hlp

INF and HLP are two variants of a help file format associated with OS/2's "Information Presentation Facility", and used by some OS/2 applications. Files can be viewed with an OS/2 app named VIEW.EXE.

INF and HLP files are usually created by compiling a source format called IPF.

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Files begin with ASCII "HS", followed (usually?) by "P".

The next byte is (usually?) 0x01 for INF, or 0x10 for HLP.

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