------------------------------------------------------------ README file: help IDL Version 5.0 ------------------------------------------------------------ This directory contains files used by the IDL Online Help system. Files with the suffix .hlp are the actual hypertext help files. Files with the suffix .cnt are "table of contents" files displayed by the "Contents" tab of the Hypertext help viewer. Files with the suffix .fts are full-text search index files generated by the viewer; if you have not used the full text search feature, you may not see any .fts files. The widget subdirectory contains text files displayed by IDL widget applications. The register subdirectory contains text files displayed by the Unix electronic registration program. If you do not have a Unix system, you will not see this subdirectory. The motd subdirectory contains the "message of the day" file displayed when you start IDL.