"Andreas" == Andreas Mohr andi@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de writes:
Andreas> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:45:51AM +1000, Ben Stanley wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've been using wine cvs for a while now, and trying to run the >> Australian Tax Office's ETax2002 program for preparing tax >> returns. Up until yesterday, it would fail with an illegal memory >> access, but yesterday it started working! I have not identified which >> patch fixed it, but the program uses flat scroll bars and list (tree) >> views. >> >> I have now used the program to complete one (non-lodgement) tax >> return, and am part way through preparing another. The ETax2002.EXE >> program appears to work very well! >> >> However, I am unable to utilise the on-line help, which is provided >> in winhlp format. When I try to run >> >> wine winhlp32.exe etax2002.hlp wine "C:\Windows\winhlp32.exe" \ >> "C:\Program Files\etax2002\etax2002.hlp" >> >> I get a message dialog saying Error while reading the help file >> `"C:\Program Files\etax2002\etax2002.hlp"' >> >> The WINE help program then displays an empty window. >> >> So it looks like more work is needed upon the help file viewer, but I >> suppose this is on the todo list anyway. I am able to access the help >> using the printed material from the tax office, which is identical to >> what is in the help file. Andreas> Our builtin winhelp implementation is known to be far from Andreas> perfect, indeed.
Most problems are with regard of starting winhelp from another application. At present, we don't pass arguments valid in the other process.
Are you sure, the problem above isn't a pure filehandling problem. Some +relay,+dosfs debugmessage consulting should tell about that...
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