executable help files in Linux

[Brian Densmore]

I was looking at a driver download from Lexar for
the JumpDrive secure version 3.1. It has drivers
for Linux, Mac and Windows. In the Linux directory
is the driver to use the secure functions of the 
stick/drive. It appears to be gtk based from a hexdump.
There is also a .hlp file, which has the magic number
and identifier for ELF files. It also appears to be
a GTK executable file. I don't recall ever seeing a 
Linux help file that was actually a program. Is this some
new trend in Linux or is it just something Lexar has
taken upon themselves to do? I don't have a Linux desktop
handy to test this, but will try to load it later and see
how well the driver works in Linux and how portable it is.
I'm assuming that Lexar has not opensourced the driver, there
is no sourcecode included. It's nice to see the support though.
When I contacted the support people the second question was
which OS I was using. Not which version of Windows.



Brian Densmore