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+<?PHP
+  /// help.php - prints a very simple page and includes a
+  ///            page content or a string from elsewhere
+  ///            Usually this will appear in a popup 
+  ///            See help() in lib/moodlelib.php
+
+  include("config.php");
+
+  if (ereg("\\.\\.", $file)) {
+      error("Error: Filenames can not contain \"..\"");
+  }
+
+
+?>
+<HTML>
+<HEAD>
+<LINK rel="stylesheet" href="<?=$CFG->wwwroot?>/theme/<?=$CFG->theme?>/styles.css">
+</HEAD>
+<BODY BGCOLOR="<?=$THEME->body ?>">
+<? include("lang/$CFG->lang/$file"); ?>
+</BODY>
+</HTML>
+
