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>When you're linking the .chm Help file on a web page,
>is there a way to NOT have the Save File dialog
>appear?
In theory? Yes, according to Microsoft. I've never met anyone who could
get it to work, however, and Microsoft's developer help threw up their
hands when I showed them my example and said "Why isn't it working?" The
trick seems to be creating a URL (that only works in Explorer, of course)
that uses the ms-its: protocol. Microsoft refers to using the "new
standard HTML Help URL" in their docs. Um, hello? Microsoft? It's not a
standard if you're the only ones who know about it...
One knowledgebase article that talks about this is:
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