winhelp and winhlp32.exe dont't exist/work

[Simo]

I have installed wine1.5 (before I hade version 1.4) on my ubuntu 12.10 and running win programs in Windows 7. In order to read some old (win98) hlp files I have tried to use winhlp32.exe from Browse C: (also installed from ubuntu sw center). It doesn't work, I just get an error message ' ... encountered error ... has to be stopped ..'. Still the same? winhlp32.exe (loaded from MS) can open the file when running in Win OS.
Next I tried to find the wine command winhelp. Couldn't find it - has it been removed or should I have some additional packages installed?

[dimesio]

Both winhelp.exe and winhlp32.exe exist on my system in 1.5.27 and are able to open .hlp files for SimCity 4, which is from the Windows 98 era. This is with no changes to winecfg.

Try changing the Windows version back to the default (XP) in winecfg.

[Simo]

Thanks,
I also have the wine version 1.5.27. Tried win 98, win xp and win 7 (which is my windows OS) in wineconf: winhlp32 doesn't work and after error message the desktop background gets black with no icons. Get it back again by starting Nautilus.
In which folder could I find the wine winhelp command? This is my terminal response:
simo@simo-N150-N210-N220:~$ wine winhelp
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\winhelp.exe"

[dimesio]

Tried win 98, win xp and win 7 (which is my windows OS)

You're not trying to run the winhlp32 from your Windows install, are you? Don't.

after error message the desktop background gets black with no icons

Sounds like a buggy graphics driver.

In which folder could I find the wine winhelp command?

Both winhlp32.exe and winhelp.exe should be in the wineprefix's /windows directory.

Try a clean wineprefix.

[Simo]

Tried win 98, win xp and win 7 (which is my windows OS)

You're not trying to run the winhlp32 from your Windows install, are you? Don't.

after error message the desktop background gets black with no icons

Sounds like a buggy graphics driver.

In which folder could I find the wine winhelp command?

Both winhlp32.exe and winhelp.exe should be in the wineprefix's /windows directory.

Try a clean wineprefix.

Ok, first I repaired the "macro 1037" error in Windows 7 so I got the hlp file working correctly in there. Then in ubuntu I cleaned the wineprefix following the instruction "mv ~/.wine ~/.wine-old". After that I did the wine installation of the application (simnon 3.0) using setup.exe (with all the necessary files, which I had copied to my ubuntu Downloads-folder. The same I used to make the installation in my win 7 os.). The installation generated new .wine with two folders (dosdevices and drive_c), as well as three files (system.reg, user.reg, userdef.reg and .update-timestamp). The application exe-file as well as the hlp-file were now in folder /.wine/drive_c/Simonon30. Both winhelp.exe and winhlp32.exe were in folder /.wine/drive_c/windows. (I just wonder if the winhlp32 appl is correct - should be with capital letters WinHlp32). Anyhow, when opening the hlp-file with WinHlp32 I got the error message as in the attached file

[dimesio]

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[Simo]

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For some reason the "add the file" didn't work. Please, find a copy of it below.

I got the hlp-file open throuhg terminal with "wine winhlp32.exe /home/simo/.wine/drive_c/Simnon30/Simnon30.hlp" although not with all the functionalities and saying that "could not find the hdk3ctnt-file. I noticed that the windows driver hdk3ctnt.dll was only in the application's windows program folder (C:/Progrm Folders/Simnon30), so I made a copy of it into C:/windows/system32 folder and made another clean wineprefix. In windows the winhelp.exe started working partly, not fully. Winhlp32.exe had all the functionalities after I did the regedit of the winhelp registry. From unbuntu terminal the winhelp.exe didn't work - could not find the hdk3ctcn-driver.
I think that this windows integration problem can not be solved. The other issue may be that I installed java jdk 1.7.0_17 as well as Gnome Shell 3.8.0.1, which is causing problems with libgjs0-libmozjs185-1.0 - provided by libgjs0c 1.34.0, but not by the libgjs0c 1.36.0+js17 which I most likely have. This is causing some extra problems with my screen behavior (getting black, killing applications). Should I start with a completly new Ubuntu installation?

Error message when opening the Simnon30.hlp file from Nautilus with winhlp32.exe:

Unhandled exception: page fault on write access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x10020f79).
Register dump:
CS:0073 SS:007b DS:007b ES:007b FS:0033 GS:003b
EIP:10020f79 ESP:0033e968 EBP:0033ea88 EFLAGS:00010206( R- -- I - -P- )
EAX:7bcbdff4 EBX:7ec1bff4 ECX:0033e988 EDX:7ffd8c00
ESI:0019e250 EDI:00000000
Stack dump:
0x0033e968: 00000000 001a81e8 1000cff4 00000000
0x0033e978: 0033e988 001a81e8 0019e250 7ec1bff4
0x0033e988: 7bcbdff4 7bc38485 7bcd9768 7bcd9788
0x0033e998: 00000000 0033ea60 7bcd9360 00000000
0x0033e9a8: 00000000 00000000 7bc96015 0033e9d4
0x0033e9b8: 00000000 7bcbdff4 7ec13b16 00000000
Backtrace:
=>0 0x10020f79 in hdk3ctnt (+0x20f79) (0x0033ea88)
1 0x100146ed in hdk3ctnt (+0x146ec) (0x0033eac4)
2 0x10014908 in hdk3ctnt (+0x14907) (0x0033eae8)
3 0x7ec09f7b in winhlp32 (+0x19f7a) (0x0033eb38)
4 0x7ec1382a MACRO_ExecuteMacro+0x369() in winhlp32 (0x0033ecc8)
5 0x7ec0f3ae WINHELP_CreateHelpWindow+0x93d() in winhlp32 (0x0033f0e8)
6 0x7ec0fef7 WINHELP_OpenHelpWindow+0x56() in winhlp32 (0x0033f118)
7 0x7ec0b11f MACRO_JumpContents+0x6e() in winhlp32 (0x0033f158)
8 0x7ec10e44 in winhlp32 (+0x20e43) (0x0033f1d8)
9 0x7eb4886a WINPROC_wrapper+0x19() in user32 (0x0033f218)
10 0x7eb48f2c in user32 (+0x98f2b) (0x0033f268)
11 0x7eb49612 in user32 (+0x99611) (0x0033f738)
12 0x7eb4b6f1 in user32 (+0x9b6f0) (0x0033f788)
13 0x7eb0a3ae in user32 (+0x5a3ad) (0x0033f7f8)
14 0x7eb0d4c7 in user32 (+0x5d4c6) (0x0033fc08)
15 0x7eb10cd6 GetMessageW+0x135() in user32 (0x0033fc68)
16 0x7ec11a48 WinMain+0x497() in winhlp32 (0x0033fd78)
17 0x7ec0030e main+0xad() in winhlp32 (0x0033fe08)
18 0x7ec139e0 in winhlp32 (+0x239df) (0x0033fe58)
19 0x7b85f1bc call_process_entry+0xb() in kernel32 (0x0033fe78)
20 0x7b86043b in kernel32 (+0x5043a) (0x0033feb8)
21 0x7bc78e40 call_thread_func_wrapper+0xb() in ntdll (0x0033fed8)
22 0x7bc7be4d call_thread_func+0x7c() in ntdll (0x0033ffa8)
23 0x7bc78e1e RtlRaiseException+0x21() in ntdll (0x0033ffc8)
24 0x7bc4e05e call_dll_entry_point+0x33d() in ntdll (0x0033ffe8)
25 0xb76114ed wine_call_on_stack+0x1c() in libwine.so.1 (0x00000000)
26 0xb76115ab wine_switch_to_stack+0x2a() in libwine.so.1 (0xbfc20b28)
27 0x7bc53ed5 LdrInitializeThunk+0x3c4() in ntdll (0xbfc20b98)
28 0x7b8669da __wine_kernel_init+0xa49() in kernel32 (0xbfc21d48)
29 0x7bc5468b __wine_process_init+0x25a() in ntdll (0xbfc21dd8)
30 0xb760ea4c wine_init+0x2db() in libwine.so.1 (0xbfc21e48)
31 0x7bf00d0b main+0x8a() in <wine-loader> (0xbfc22298)
32 0xb743f4d3 __libc_start_main+0xf2() in libc.so.6 (0x00000000)
0x10020f79: movl %eax,0x0(%edi)
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (72 modules)
PE 10000000-1003d000 Export hdk3ctnt
ELF 7ac00000-7ac60000 Deferred riched20<elf>
\-PE 7ac10000-7ac60000 \ riched20
ELF 7b800000-7ba45000 Dwarf kernel32<elf>
\-PE 7b810000-7ba45000 \ kernel32
ELF 7bc00000-7bcda000 Dwarf ntdll<elf>
\-PE 7bc10000-7bcda000 \ ntdll
ELF 7bf00000-7bf04000 Dwarf <wine-loader>
ELF 7cde6000-7ce1c000 Deferred uxtheme<elf>
\-PE 7cdf0000-7ce1c000 \ uxtheme
ELF 7ce1c000-7ce5c000 Deferred winspool<elf>
\-PE 7ce20000-7ce5c000 \ winspool
ELF 7ce5c000-7cf64000 Deferred comctl32<elf>
\-PE 7ce60000-7cf64000 \ comctl32
ELF 7cf64000-7cfdc000 Deferred shlwapi<elf>
\-PE 7cf70000-7cfdc000 \ shlwapi
ELF 7cfdc000-7d20a000 Deferred shell32<elf>
\-PE 7cff0000-7d20a000 \ shell32
ELF 7d20a000-7d2f1000 Deferred comdlg32<elf>
\-PE 7d210000-7d2f1000 \ comdlg32
ELF 7e17e000-7e1a2000 Deferred imm32<elf>
\-PE 7e180000-7e1a2000 \ imm32
ELF 7e1a2000-7e2dc000 Deferred oleaut32<elf>
\-PE 7e1c0000-7e2dc000 \ oleaut32
ELF 7e2dc000-7e35d000 Deferred rpcrt4<elf>
\-PE 7e2f0000-7e35d000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 7e35d000-7e498000 Deferred ole32<elf>
\-PE 7e370000-7e498000 \ ole32
ELF 7e498000-7e49f000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
ELF 7e49f000-7e4aa000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7e4aa000-7e4ba000 Deferred libxi.so.6
ELF 7e4ba000-7e4c5000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2
ELF 7e4c5000-7e4cf000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 7e4cf000-7e4d5000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 7e4d5000-7e4d9000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1
ELF 7e4d9000-7e4e0000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6
ELF 7e4e0000-7e502000 Deferred libxcb.so.1
ELF 7e502000-7e508000 Deferred libuuid.so.1
ELF 7e508000-7e522000 Deferred libice.so.6
ELF 7e522000-7e658000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 7e658000-7e66a000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 7e66a000-7e673000 Deferred libsm.so.6
ELF 7e68f000-7e722000 Deferred winex11<elf>
\-PE 7e6a0000-7e722000 \ winex11
ELF 7e7d7000-7e7ff000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 7e7ff000-7e839000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7e839000-7e852000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 7e852000-7e8ec000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 7e908000-7e977000 Deferred advapi32<elf>
\-PE 7e910000-7e977000 \ advapi32
ELF 7e977000-7ea93000 Deferred gdi32<elf>
\-PE 7e980000-7ea93000 \ gdi32
ELF 7ea93000-7ebed000 Dwarf user32<elf>
\-PE 7eab0000-7ebed000 \ user32
ELF 7ebed000-7ec3d000 Dwarf winhlp32<elf>
\-PE 7ebf0000-7ec3d000 \ winhlp32
ELF 7ec3d000-7ec57000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF 7ec57000-7ec60000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
ELF 7ec62000-7ec7c000 Deferred version<elf>
\-PE 7ec70000-7ec7c000 \ version
ELF 7efaf000-7efdb000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF 7efdb000-7efe4000 Deferred librt.so.1
ELF 7efe7000-7eff4000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 7eff4000-7f000000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF b7421000-b7426000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF b7426000-b75d0000 Dwarf libc.so.6
ELF b75d1000-b75ec000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF b75ec000-b75f0000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1
ELF b7600000-b7604000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF b7608000-b774c000 Dwarf libwine.so.1
ELF b774e000-b7770000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2
ELF b7770000-b7771000 Deferred [vdso].so
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
0000000e services.exe
00000020 0
0000001f 0
00000015 0
00000010 0
0000000f 0
00000012 winedevice.exe
0000001b 0
0000001a 0
00000014 0
00000013 0
0000001c plugplay.exe
00000021 0
0000001e 0
0000001d 0
00000022 explorer.exe
00000023 0
00000024 Simnon30.exe
00000025 0
00000026 (D) C:\windows\system32\winhlp32.exe
00000027 0 <==
System information:
Wine build: wine-1.5.27
Platform: i386
Host system: Linux
Host version: 3.5.0-28-generic

[dimesio]

In windows the winhelp.exe started working partly, not fully. Winhlp32.exe had all the functionalities after I did the regedit of the winhelp registry.

If something doesn't work in Windows, don't expect it to work in Wine either. If changes to the registry fixed a problem in Windows, try making the same changes to the wineprefix's registry.

From unbuntu terminal the winhelp.exe didn't work - could not find the hdk3ctcn-driver.

Is this a hardware driver? If so, it won't work in Wine.

The other issue may be that I installed java jdk 1.7.0_17 as well as Gnome Shell 3.8.0.1, which is causing problems with libgjs0-libmozjs185-1.0 - provided by libgjs0c 1.34.0, but not by the libgjs0c 1.36.0+js17 which I most likely have. This is causing some extra problems with my screen behavior (getting black, killing applications). Should I start with a completly new Ubuntu installation?

Ask your distro. This forum is for Wine questions only.

Error message when opening the Simnon30.hlp file from Nautilus with winhlp32.exe:

Post the full terminal output, including the command used to run it.