Perry,

I see what you are seeing with my older help files:

set help to xyz.hlp
help

And it brings up a dialog with Index and Find pages

A newer hlp file I built brings up the Dialog with Contents, Index, Find pages.

set topic to "contents"
help

launches help to the contents page.

set topic id to 0
help

brings up the dialog instead of going to the Contents topic

set topic id to 1
help

brings up the proper topic with ContextID of 1

I think all this may depend on whether the help file was built for Win16 or Win32.

You can get ForeHelp 30 day money back if you don't like it. They are at www.ff.com

>I'm calling my help file from the menu I created, just a simple HELP command. When I compiled the darn thing it displayed the contents page. Where can I get a demo of ForeHelp, maybe i can convince my boss to buy it?