HELP files in 5.6 filepro on Windows7 - FYI

[John Esak]

Yeesh, such a gigantic change-up  and it rolls off them like water off a
educk.  Can you imagine if filePro just came out not supporting the "help"
format anymore?  You couldn't shut the screams up for a year....   I guess
you just get away with stuff when you are "too big to fail"....

John
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 6:42 PM
> To: john at valar.com
> Cc: joe at magnatechonline.com; 'Nancy Palmquist'; 'filePro Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: HELP files in 5.6 filepro on Windows7 - FYI
> 
> On 4/7/2010 6:10 PM, John Esak wrote:
> [...]
> > Anyone who has even only glancingly read this list knows 
> that I am a pretty
> > die-hard supporter of the Microsoft Windows GUI.  I always 
> or mostly always
> > defend MS.  However, dropping support for the .hlp 
> format/protocol?  Well,
> > that doesn't seem like a sound or even just fair path to take.
> [...]
> 
> Well, technically, they didn't "drop support" for the .hlp 
> file format. 
> Rather, versions since Vista don't include the .hlp file 
> viewer "out of the 
> box".  If you try to use such a file, you get a window which says:
> 
>      The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format,
>      which depends on a feature that isn't included in this version
>      of Windows. However, you can download a program that will allow
>      you to view Help created in the Windows Help format.
> 
>      For more information, go to the Microsoft Help and Support
>      website.
> 
> The last sentence has a clickable link to the knowledgebase 
> article about 
> it, along with download links for several versions of Windows.
> 
> Microsoft is calling them "legacy .hlp files".
> 
> Surprisingly, although they don't include support for "32-bit 
> .hlp files", 
> they still include support for "16-bit .hlp files".
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody
>