On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:45:51AM +1000, Ben Stanley wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using wine cvs for a while now, and trying to run the > Australian Tax Office's ETax2002 program for preparing tax returns. Up > until yesterday, it would fail with an illegal memory access, but > yesterday it started working! I have not identified which patch fixed > it, but the program uses flat scroll bars and list (tree) views. > > I have now used the program to complete one (non-lodgement) tax return, > and am part way through preparing another. The ETax2002.EXE program > appears to work very well! > > However, I am unable to utilise the on-line help, which is provided in > winhlp format. When I try to run > > wine winhlp32.exe etax2002.hlp > wine "C:\\Windows\\winhlp32.exe" \ > "C:\\Program Files\\etax2002\\etax2002.hlp" > > I get a message dialog saying > Error while reading the help file > `"C:\Program Files\etax2002\etax2002.hlp"' > > The WINE help program then displays an empty window. > > So it looks like more work is needed upon the help file viewer, but I > suppose this is on the todo list anyway. I am able to access the help > using the printed material from the tax office, which is identical to > what is in the help file. Our builtin winhelp implementation is known to be far from perfect, indeed.
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