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Re: win95 help files suddenly don't work under NT 4.0
Subject:Re: win95 help files suddenly don't work under NT 4.0 From:"Brierley, Sean" <Brierley -at- QUODATA -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 3 Mar 1999 16:16:25 -0500
Hallo:
Is the help file in question compiled using the 32-bit or 16-bit WinHelp
compiler? Windows NT would not be able to see the latter. Windoze 3.1 would
not be able to use the former.
>>>Subject: win95 help files suddenly don't work under NT 4.0
>>>
>>>
>>>Anyone have any idea what would make a winhelp file suddenly
>>>stop working under
>>>NT? Our test engineer has just come to us saying that he's
>>>getting a message
>>>that he needs a "newer help file", whatever that means.