help file won't open

[futility]

Ever since I've used 3.03 (going back years on several machines) the help doesn't work. Not a huge problem (obviously I haven't bothered abotu it for nearly 8 years) but I'd like get it working, just as a quick reference withour having to bust out the manual.

If I right click on a module and pick help, I get a windows error message telling me it can't find the file and do I want to find it myself. I f I then pick it out it works fine. But ti's a drag to do over and over.

If I could rename the file & put it in the right spot it would work, but the windows error message shows the path with abreviations ("cannot find the F:\PROGRA~1\Clavia\MODULA~1.03\MODULA~2.HLP")

F:\ is my system drive. Anybody know what to name the file & folder, or how to tel NM editor 3.03 to just use the one that exists?

[blue hell]

It should be in the same folder as the editor exe file .. IIRC ...

[futility]

That's what I thought, but it doesn't find it there. It's looking in a different folder, but because the error message abrevieates the path with DOS style tildes I can't see exactly where it should be. I wonder if it's a registry entry I could change...

[blue hell]

You could type the abbreviated path (without the help file name) into a dos box (preceded by "cd ") and see where you end up, but probably in the folder where your exe file is ...

So open a dos box, first type

"f:" <enter>

to go to the f drive, and then type

"cd \PROGRA~1\Clavia\MODULA~1.03" <enter>

and see what the full name is.

[futility]

OK, I'll give that a try. I think the path doesn't exist though... so I'll probably get a similar error message. I'll try it tonight & follow up.

[cappy2112]