Re: Eu2.1: how disable special WINDOWS keys?
Hi everybody!
(Sorry to butt at this late date with a comment on a 2-week old subject, but
I've been piling up unread messages for a while. Don't do it!)
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: Eu2.1: how disable special WINDOWS keys?
> On Tuesday, August 29, 2000 9:46 AM Kat said:
>
> > To find help on ansi.sys, in a dos window type "help ansi". I can send
you
> more info,
> > but it's all dos-based, pre-win3.x.
>
> Dan says: I haven't ever been able to get "help" like that on Win98, but
I
> will look on an older Win3.x system which does. But would I be able to
> utilize it *programaitically*, so the app user wouldn't have to do
anything?
Windows 98 (actually, Windows 95+) comes with two programs: Winhelp.exe and
Winhlp32.exe, located in the Windows dir (e.g. c:\windows). The first one is
the Winhelp 3 engine (.hlp files), the second is for Winhelp 4 (both .hlp
and .chm files). When you click on a help file, or call it from another
program, you are actually invoking one of those programs.
Both can be called from the (Win32) command line (as in Start > Run ...). If
you don't specify any file, they will open standard 'file open' boxes. If
you indicate a file (nothing else needed, just "winhelp32 whatisthis.chm" or
equivalent), it will open the file. The same can be done from a program.
Note: it may be safer to specify the whole path for the file; it had trouble
finding files in directories obviously in the PATH=, but not when I said
"winhelp c:\windows\filename...".
Also note: The inverse works fine. If you call "somefile.hlp" or
"someother.chm", Windows will correctly locate the proper .exe and run it
(locates the .cnt file ok).
I downloaded the Micro$oft Help Workshop (for Winhelp - i.e. Win95- help
files) and the HTML Help Workshop (for Winhelp4 -Win98- .chm files). Don't
remember the installation file sizes, but the installed packages run to 1.6
and 4 MB. Both come with excellent and very complete docs (!), including
authoring guides which may get you up and compiling your own very
professional help files in no time at all. The setup procedures work OK,
just remember to install the Help Workshop before the HTML Help Workshop,
since it will overwrite the hh.* files with later versions (well, you can
always run sfc.exe).
Very much like Microsoft. They will drive you crazy trying to make you buy
expensive bloatware you don't really need, all the while hiding their really
good products under the rug. Oh, sorry, the Workshops are free ...
Gerardo E. Brandariz
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