[DUG] D2006

[Cleon Pinto]

Not the best solution... but this works for me

create a cmd file which contains:

@start "" "C:\Program Files\borland\Delphi5\Help\delphi5.hlp"


and call that from the tools menu

hope it helps a little :)

cheers
Cleon.

On 12/19/05, John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> That sort of works, that is I get a spurious IE window open with "Action
> cancelled" and a warning dialog from SP2 about am I sure I want to run this
> file every time, then it does open......is there no more direct way to open
> a help file???
>
>
> John
>
>
> Try something along the lines of
>
> C:\Windows\hh.exe as the exe to run
> C:\Program Files\borland\Delphi5\Help\delphi5.hlp as the parameter to it.
>
> HTH,
>
> Conor
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
> Behalf Of John Bird
>
> Accessing older help for D2006
>
> I have a cunning plan....I tried adding to the Tools menu a tool saying
>
>  "c:\Program Files\borland\Delphi5\Help\delphi5.hlp"
>
> But this does not work.....it complains of cannot execute this (error 2) I
> tried a few variations as well (setting working dir etc but it also does not
> like this)... any suggestions?  I think the problem is that the tool has to
> be an .exe file, and any of the usual tricks such as start Delphi5.hlp or
> cmd /c delphi.hlp don't work either...
>
> [snip]
>
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