Re: wxt terminal in windows hangs

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> Maybe you guys just need to be a bit more patient before killing it.
> 
> > The problem with the help files is a longstanding one, and AFAIK it's
> > not that easy to fix. There is a system component that was in XP but
> > is missing from Vista et al., that's why the help doesn't work. You
> > can install that component from Microsoft's site, after that it'll
> > work. (I can't recall its name now)
> 
> If only it were that simple.  The real problem is that even after you 
> have winhelp32 installed, it'll _still_ refuse to display our help 
> pages, because they have arrived on the system without having been 
> "blessed" by an official MSI installer.  So you have to explicitly 
> remove a "this is a nasty file from somewhere in the big, nasty 
> Internet, so it can't be allowed to work" flag from the file in Explorer.

Would an installer help here? It's nice gnuplot installation is just "unzip 
this file", but maybe an installer or a setup-script doing
- download and install winhelp32
- remove security bits
- run gnuplot for the 1st time
would help here.

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