On-line help files

[Intel_C_Intel]

When I go to use the VF on-line help files it frequently asks for the Version 6.6 CD. Unfortunately I don't have a version 6.6 CD, only a long chain of upgrade CD's. How do I get the help system straightened out? Putting everything on my hd is fine but I don't know how, or where, to start.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The best way to do this is as follows:

Uninstall CVF. Reinstall 6.0 (you don't need to go earlier than that.) Select a Custom install and make sure that for the on-disk documentation, all checkboxes in the sub-options are checked. Upgrade to 6.5, then 6.6 and 6.6B.

Steve

[durisinm]

Most of the time when I use the on-line documentation it works without any problem. Every once in a while, though, I get prompted to look for D:INFODFDOC, and I'll have to put in my latest CVF CD. Do I also have to follow the above directions to stop this from happening?

Unfortunately, I don't have an example of what subjects I'm searching for when this happens.

Mike

[Steven_L_Intel1]

That's a symptom of the help collection seeing at least one of the "titles" as being on your CD-ROM. Following the above advice would help for that.

Steve

[Michael_E_Intel1]

Consider creating a subset in HTML Help (Edit menu > Define Subset) that just displays the Visual Fortran titles (omit Platform SDK and Developer Studio). If you use that subset, chances are that the mount CD dialog prompt won't appear.

The HTML Help files consist of a pair of CHM and CHI files. The CHI files are always installed in the ...df98doc directory. The prompt occurs when some of the expected CHM files are not installed in df98doc (depends upon the installation choices and CVF version). You are probably missing some CHM files in the df98doc directory, like those associated with Platform SDK.

[durisinm]

I opened up the CVF online documentation and randomly chose the topic about the %= operator, and I received the prompt asking me to insert my CVF CD so that the help application could look into the INFODFDOC directory.

I then compared the DF98DOC directory of CVF installed on my hard drive with the INFODFDOC directory of my CVF 6.5-to-6.6 upgrade CD. The upgrade CD's directory contains 92 .CHI and .CHM files each, but for some reason the directory on my hard drive had 92 .CHI files but only 3 .CHM files. I was almost positive that I had asked for all documentation to be installed when I performed the upgrade, so this confuses me.

In any case, I copied the missing 89 .CHM files to my hard drive and again chose the topic about the %= operator. I received the same prompt, and then I clicked the Browse button and chose the DF98/DOC directory on my hard drive. I had tried this before copying the missing .CHM files to my hard drive and always received the prompt asking me to insert the CD again. This time, however, my computer found what it wanted and showed me the information on the topic. I chose several more topics at random, and the help application found all of them without any problems.

I closed and reopened the online help, and it was still able to find all the topics I chose without prompting me to insert the CVF CD.

Mike