Flogging a deadish horse...

[Mike Starr <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>]

Well, it's me again and I have something else to say about the "dead" 
WinHelp...

Here's a little quote from the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607/EN-US/) regarding WinHelp:

"The WinHelp.exe program is a version of Windows Help designed for 
16-bit .hlp files. The WinHelp.exe program will continue to be included 
with Windows Vista."

Note that they're saying they're going to continue to distribute the 
OLD WinHelp executable. Now why on earth would that be?? Is it because 
they need to use WinHelp to do things that .CHM files can't do?

The old WinHlp32.exe can be copied from Windows XP and works just fine 
on Windows Vista (http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?postid=535). Their 
justification for dropping support for WinHelp? "...the Windows Help 
program has not had a major update for many releases and no longer 
meets Microsoft standards."

So let me see... WinHlp32.exe no longer meets Microsoft standards but 
WinHelp.exe (which hasn't had an update in even longer) does?

<sigh>
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