Is Wine's WinHelp program supposed to work? By that I mean, if I invoke that program with a Windows help file, is it supposed to be able to display the contents of the help file as Window's winhelp.exe would?
I ask because 1) I have a program (DeLorme's AAA MapNGo) that uses WinHelp format documents for some of its normal operation, and 2) I have a WinHelp format file I'd dearly like to be able to access directly from Wine.
When I try to launch Wine's Winhelp, it brings up a window, but the window is empty. If I go to File->Open and try to open a WinHelp file, I get the same result. Is there some setup I'm missing?
On Thursday 16 August 2001 09:28 pm, you wrote:
Is Wine's WinHelp program supposed to work? By that I mean, if I invoke that program with a Windows help file, is it supposed to be able to display the contents of the help file as Window's winhelp.exe would?
I ask because 1) I have a program (DeLorme's AAA MapNGo) that uses WinHelp format documents for some of its normal operation, and 2) I have a WinHelp format file I'd dearly like to be able to access directly from Wine.
When I try to launch Wine's Winhelp, it brings up a window, but the window is empty. If I go to File->Open and try to open a WinHelp file, I get the same result. Is there some setup I'm missing?
I get the same thing. I think Wine's winhelp isn't supposed to work yet. If you have access to the windows winhlp32.exe, it runs perfectly under wine (afaict better than in windows. I have a help file that creating a search index always crashes it under windows. Under wine it doesn't work, but it recovers without crashing).
I may take a look at it if I can find the file format.
Bobby Bingham
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 08:28:27PM -0500, David D. Hagood wrote:
Is Wine's WinHelp program supposed to work? By that I mean, if I invoke that program with a Windows help file, is it supposed to be able to display the contents of the help file as Window's winhelp.exe would?
I ask because 1) I have a program (DeLorme's AAA MapNGo) that uses WinHelp format documents for some of its normal operation, and 2) I have a WinHelp format file I'd dearly like to be able to access directly from Wine.
When I try to launch Wine's Winhelp, it brings up a window, but the window is empty. If I go to File->Open and try to open a WinHelp file, I get the same result. Is there some setup I'm missing?
IIRC there are two formats; 16 and 32 bit. Wine's winhelp only understands the former, while of course any help file shipped today is likely to be in the latter format.
Huw.
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