whats the status on winhlp32?

[Bill Medland]

gerard patel <g.patel at wanadoo.fr.invalid> wrote in article
<3ba69595.5958052 at news.nerim.net>...
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:08:58 GMT, "Bill Medland" <medbi01 at accpac.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >I am just starting to look into the help side of our application and
wanted
> >to check on the status, especially with regard to the following:
> >
> >1. We have to use the Microsoft winhlp32.exe; there isn't a Wine
version?
> 
> No.
> Huw explained on wine-devel that the Wine winhlp is
> only able to read Win16 help files.
> (Btw, I don't think it is a good idea to distribute any
> Ms software with a Winelib app...)
> 
> The only commercial app I know using Wine was
> replacing hlp files with html ones (there are tools
> to this kind of conversion I believe) and used
> Netscape to display them (IIRC)
> 
> Gerard
> 
Thanks Gerard