more info on windows help files here is the latest on relocating your help files to a server the winhelp function as i am told by ms does search your path so relocating ms windows helpfiles won t be a problem as long as you include the path to where you move them to however if an application has hardcoded the path into their code so that when winhelp is invoked it searches the given path i e winhelp hwnd c amipro for example then winhelp does not search your path and instead looks only to that directory where you have installed your software i tested this out on a variety of software packages i moved all my helpfiles to the drive z and included this in the path statement here is the results for different software packages norton desktop found helpfiles windows v for workgroups found helpfiles windows v found helpfiles ms powerpoint v found helpfiles ms word found helpfiles ms excel v a did not find helpfiles strange ms foxpro v for windows found helpfiles lotus amipro v did not find helpfiles procomm plus for windows did not find helpfiles i guess this is better than nothing but it would make sense to be able to specify a global path for helpfiles if anyone has any comments or if i can help anyone or if i left something out please let me know lhighley gozer idbsu edu thanks for the help from everyone especially jagrant emr emr ca more info on this topic as it develops
