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Subject:RE: linking PDF to Help From:"David B. Stewart" <dbstewart -at- dswrite -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:18:53 -0500
Use WINHLP32.EXE, instead. It does WinHelp 4 and will also support the
earlier version *.HLP files, should you need to use them. WINHELP.EXE is
the older version and behaves as you describe.
Regards,
Dave Stewart http://www.dswrite.com/
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> Subject: linking PDF to Help
>
>
> Hi all, I am trying to create a link from my PDF documents
> (generated in
> Frame 6.0) to particular topics in my online help file (generated in
> RoboHelp 8.0/9.0). I can't figure it out. I tried performing calls to
> WINHELP.EXE -n101 test.hlp as described at
>http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q115/1/83.asp
> , using the Message Client hypertext command in Frame. The result is that
winhelp
> doesn't recognize any help file compiled as WinHelp 4, but works fine on
> WinHelp 3. All of my stuff is WinHelp 4.
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