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« Reply #2 on: Jun 13th, 2013, 10:15pm »
Dear Richard Russell,

Thank you for your response.

I would just like to point out that the WIN32HLP.EXE is not available for Windows 8.

Is this the official BBC Basic forums?

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xx Re: Windows API Help
« Reply #3 on: Jun 14th, 2013, 08:40am »
on Jun 13th, 2013, 10:15pm, Guest-Katogoon wrote:
I would just like to point out that the WIN32HLP.EXE is not available for Windows 8.

Yes it is (I assume you mean WinHlp32.exe which is required to display HLP files like Win32.hlp). You can get it from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=35449

There is potential for confusion from the similar filenames:

WIN32HLP.EXE is the installer for the Win32 API help package.
WINHLP32.EXE is the installer for the HLP file viewer for Windows 8.

You need to install both if you want to use the old Win32 help on Windows 8. I've just done it and it works fine. Of course Win32.hlp is quite out-of-date so for a more complete set of API docs you should download the Platform SDK or search MSDN online.

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« Reply #4 on: Jun 14th, 2013, 11:31am »
If you're already familiar with the API you shouldn't have any problems. If, like me, you are not, then you will tear your hair out frequently, but most problems can be resolved with enough searching.

I can thoroughly recommend BB4W.
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