For the benefit of those without Windows 3.1, I found this great program hlp2doc which allowed me to convert all the hlp files into MS Word 2.0 documents...  So using MS Word 2.0 I then re-saved all the documents into plain text files.. "unzip -a" should then convert them to your native CR/LF..

I've made it available here:

http://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/install/386bsd/386BSD%201.0%20txt.zip

If anyone feels that this is a bad thing, let me know and I'll pull it.