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- From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
- Subject: Re: AmiPro 3.0
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.103119.14482@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 10:31:18 GMT
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- Joe Bruce (JAB156@psuvm.psu.edu) wrote:
- : I had problems installing AmiPro 3.0 - all would install correctly, except the
- : help would not work - WIN-OS/2 help reported that the AmiPro help files were
- : incompatible or something. During a re-install, I noticed that it was trying
- : to overwrite my WINHELP.EXE and WINHELP.HLP files, but was not succeeding.
- : Anyway, I renamed the two files to save them, and then the AmiPro install
- : replaced them with - surprise - the Windows 3.1 help files. ALL of my help
- : works now - my only question is - will this cause a problem? So far, all of
- : the help things work for all of my applications, though with the 3.1 interface,
- : for obvious reasons. Will this cause problems in the future?
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- i think 3.1 help is a superset of 3.0 help .... the change is that
- it supports (better) compressed help files . i would assume that it
- will be upwards compatible as i doubt that MS would shoot themselves
- in the foot to such an extent
-
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