Re: Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 7

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

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.