Help command knows more than you thought

Daniel K. Cunningham (PTC) tells how to use the "help" command for non-standard topics. Last Updated: 2006-09-14

The simple syntax "help nnnn" will not work with topics in files other than help.chm. However, with the proper arguments, the help command will bring up topics in other .chm files. Use:

help -file  

For example, to bring up topic "439" in the styler chm file:

help -file styler.chm 439

Bringing up help files not in the standard \help installation directory (like for the Change Processing Application) requires the full path name to the chm. To bring up CPA help topic "5946" from mukulungu, you need to enter something like:

help -file "c:\Program Files\Epic\application\com.arbortext.comp.cpa\help\cpa.chm" 5946