Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 7

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA-5]

Hello

>From windows Vista, WinHlp32.exe is required to display 32-bit Help files that have the ".hlp" file
name extension. The help file for gnuplot for windows is prepared in the ".hlp" format.  So
WinHLP32.exe is required for windows Vista.  

Recently Windows 7 has been sold. (I have still been using windows XP. :-( )  
I have been worried about WinHlp32.exe being available on windows 7 and searched by Google.
 
I have confirmed that WinHlp32.exe is prepared also for Windows 7.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=258aa5ec-e3d9-4228-8844-008e02b32a2c

At least the Windows 7, '.hlp' can be used as a help file of gnuplot.

In the Readme of next version (4.4) for the windows distribution , is it better to add description of
WinHlp32.wxe ?

Regards

Tatsuro


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[Hans-Bernhard Bröker-2]

Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

> From windows Vista, WinHlp32.exe is required to display 32-bit Help files that have the ".hlp" file
> name extension. The help file for gnuplot for windows is prepared in the ".hlp" format.  So
> WinHLP32.exe is required for windows Vista.  

> I have confirmed that WinHlp32.exe is prepared also for Windows 7.

In other words, the coming of Windows 7 hasn't changed the situation
regarding 32-bit Windows help files in any way, except that there's a
non-negligible chance that many people and organizations who have been
sticking with XP because of Vista being, well ... Vista, will now update.

But gnuplot is not terribly likely to be the only, or even the first
program such people encounter this Microsoft nonsense with.  In all the
years PCs have been shipping with Vista now, I don't recall any
significant number of questions about people lacking WinHlp32.  Guess
they all fixed Microsoft's mistake before they ever got round to
installing gnuplot...

> In the Readme of next version (4.4) for the windows distribution , is it better to add description of
> WinHlp32.wxe ?

A note might not hurt.

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