Hi,
It is my understanding that old windows help files are currently supported by wine even though they didn't used to be some years ago... I could be wrong. Mine, however are not working and I can find little to no information on the topic that is helpful in resolving the issue.
I have the latest stable version of Wine 7.0.1. running on Ubuntu 22.04. My windows programs work fine. I can see that both winhlp.exe and winhelp32.exe are where they are supposed to be in my .wine folder's tree structure, yet, when I open any help files from inside my programs I get a new window with a blank screen in it.
Is it me? Or is there a known bug? No one else seems to be having this issue...
Old Windows Help Not Working...
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Re: Old Windows Help Not Working...
If no one is able to offer any advice on how to fix this problem, would someone at least be able to let me know if I am correct that old windows .chm help files are supposed to work in wine and perhaps let me know if they work for you or not? Although not a solution, that would still be very helpful to me in solving the issue.
Re: Old Windows Help Not Working...
If I extract the help files (*.chm) from my Windows 98 SE CD they work just fine with Wine 8.0-rc1.
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# The *.chm files are extracted to C:\help
wine hh.exe C:\\help\\msoe.chm
# or
wine start C:\\help\\msoe.chm