HELP files in 5.6 filepro on Windows7 - FYI

[John Esak]

Wow, that's a heck of a thing to know.  So they (apparently) cut off support
for the older .hlp format at Windows 7 huh?  Proof being the XP emulation
can open the old .hlp files.  I suppose they have now been writing their own
.hlp format and will break away from the old Robohelp.  That is really a
strange break.  They usually try for backward compatibility.  What in the
world are they going to do with files that have the .hlp extension on
Windows 7.  Force them to be converted?  Read the magic bytes and then call
the right viewer?  I'm surprised they just didn't buy the old .hlp
designers... (or did they already?)  Seems to me the .hlp format/protocol
should be treated in the same way that .mp3 is. Lots of programs can open it
and we'll provide a base program to do it in their O/S  defaulting the file
type to their own app.  But to change the new .hlp to be so strange that the
new app can't read an old .hlp.  That's really going some in the wrong
direction, isn't it?

John

> -----Original Message-----
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m] On Behalf Of Nancy Palmquist
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 5:28 PM
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> Subject: HELP files in 5.6 filepro on Windows7 - FYI
> 
> Guys,
> 
> To answer Richards question, I just tried to open the .hlp files that 
> are installed with 5.6 on my new Windows 7 computer.
> 
> It turns out that Windows7 does not come with the required 
> .exe file to 
> open the .hlp file for filePro's manual.
> 
> It did offer to help me download the correct thing, if I needed it.
> 
> But under my XP virtual mode, I did have the right .exe to 
> open the .hlp 
> file.
> 
> So this is something to be aware if you have customers that will be 
> loading Windows7.
> Nancy
> 
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