Thanks Richard

Did what you suggested and it solved the problem.

Many thanks
Cyril.

>One other thing to check: make sure you have both foxhhelp7.exe and foxhhelpps7.dll installed and registered. I had this problem the first time I ran an exe with a .chm help file on win98 even.
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>Richard
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>>I may be wrong here, but it looks like it may not be finding your chm file. Depending on your default directory and your variable replacement.
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>>The following works fine for me:
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>>SET HELP on
>>SET HELP to alltrim(m.cHelpPath)
>>SET TOPIC TO alltrim(m.cHelpTopic)
>>HELP
>>SET HELP TO

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>>where m.cHelpPath contains the full path and filename of the chm. I would definitely get rid of the &ghelp and set it to (gpath+ghelp). If you dont use your gpath then try setting a default dir first "set default"
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>>Lots of times, things will work on one machine and not another when it's a path issue, especially if you are working on a developer machine. Developer machines seem to always find the right path.
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>>If this doesnt work try adding a button to one of your forms and hardcode everything to your chm file.
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>>SET HELP on
>>SET HELP to 'c:\mypath\mychm.chm'
>>SET TOPIC TO 'mytopic'
>>Help
>>SET HELP TO

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>>this may give you some insight into whether it is an OS issue or not.