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test-check-help: fix to work on Windows

The initial problem was `hg files` prints paths with '\', which gets removed
when piped (scanhelptopics.py failed to open 'hgext__init__.py').  Then, xargs
was invoking `hg help` with 'backout\r (esc)', which setting binary mode
prevents.

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.