Hi Tom,
Of course I meant Fritz Mueller who does have a lot of experience in using HTMLHELP and working with help texts for it. So I trust him that those bugs do exist. He just is not on the mailing list, so I am forwarding. You wondered whether bugs depend on configuration: One of the bugs is that if LANG=XX is set and no htmlhelp.XX translation exists, the HELP exe hangs instead of just using no translation. That does depend on configuration but it could fail more gracefully. >> b) help.exe often crashes when moving around from index.htm to >> sub-htm-files and back or from one sub-htm-file to other ones >> and back. In many cases you have to reboot. > in case of 'often' it would be helpful to have examples of this That should be quantified better, yes. >> d) Referring to c): There is one more problem: At some files you >> can move down with arrow up/down to this end (last shown line). >> When you do so there are WRONG links shown THAT HAVE ABSOLUTELY >> NOTHING TO DO with the actual htm file (no idea where help gets >> them from). Sometimes this are correct links like >> "hhstndrd/command/set.htm", sometimes only absolute nonsense >> is shown at the left bottom. If you type "ENTER" the htm file >> may be executed or you get an error message. that e.g. >> "xyzcba_?DIR" cannot be found. That does indeed need a specific example. >> e) I created an internet version where special characters, >> german Umlauts and french/spanish accents can be written >> as e.g. "á". It is supported by help and Mateusz >> Viste created his amb files out of it, but not when such >> characters are written in the "<h1> special character</h1>" >> header section. In this case help hangs. Fritz and Mateusz, where can the web version be downloaded? And Tom, as you know, Fritz is no DOS programmer. So while it is cool that HTMLHELP is open source, he cannot fix it. Some people may still find reading his bug reports useful. Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
