OK I hold my hands up - it has been so long since I actually needed to  
look at this program.

You are right it will report DIR_SELECT$ cannot be found IF:

1) You do not have menu_rext present
2) You have not configured the HELP_obj program to set the correct  
directory for the location of the help topics - normally win1_BASIC_

As it includes its own boot file to install the files to win1_BASIC_ I  
guess this bug has never been found !!

Rich

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:22:03 +0100, David McCann  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've just checked the zip files on the QHelp master very carefully, and
> there is *no* menu_rext. More to the point, the boot supplied does not
> load it: just ptr_gen, wman, qlib_run, and hot_rext -- all of which I
> have! Is DIR_SELECT$ really part of menu_rext?
>
> So the problem remains: why does QHelp complain that DIR_SELECT$ is a
> bad name now under an emulator, when it ran perfectly well on a black
> box?
>
> When I got my QL in 198? I was impressed by how much easier to use it
> was than my PC at work. Nowadays I'm constantly noticing how much easier
> Linux is! For anyone who's wrestled with installing QL Lynx, compare the
> Linux installation: just type "rpm -i Lynx". And then the QL version
> needs half a dozen environment variables set every time you run it. I've
> never needed to set an environment variable for a Linux program. It
> seems that as other computers have got simpler, the QL has got more
> confusing (and confused).
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