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Chris Marriott <chris@chrism.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<p6zDSRAwSpP0EwH1@chrism.demon.co.uk>...
> In article <61lgdo$3if$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net>, Geoff
> Chappell <geoffch@no.junk.mail.please> writes
> >... If they leave the
> >Connect to the Internet as Needed option on in Explorer then when they
> >attempt to preview their web pages, their browser will want to connect
to
> >the Internet even though the pages are on the local machine.) 
> 
> Likewise with VC++5, which uses IE to display its help system.

I haven't installed VC++ 5.0 yet, one reason being an uncertainty (or
fear) over how it uses Internet Explorer. The use of IE is not explained
very well in anything accessible to me before installation. It's as if
Microsoft takes it as given that I should think Internet Explorer is the
natural tool for viewing files stored on my own hard disk. I just don't
have the time or inclination to try it and see - especially not after all
the installing, uninstalling and reinstalling involved with version 4.1
(which I note that Microsoft does not want to allow a refund on). 

So, does VC++ 5.0 handle the on-line help files like Front Page handles my
web site, with a Personal Web Server so that files in the relevant
directory of my hard disk (or maybe CD-ROM) get a URL with an http
protocol? And if I do indeed have the on-line help copied to my hard disk,
does IE still cache everything I read (so that I end up with two copies on
my hard disk)? 

-- 
Geoff Chappell
Software Analyst

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