QuickHelp Duplicate Search Brings Up Wrong Help

ID Number: Q67234

1.70 | 1.70

MS-DOS | OS/2

buglist1.70

Summary:

In QuickHelp, if you select Duplicate Search from the View menu and

enter a search string containing a wildcard, all the topics that match

that string should appear. In some cases, however, all of the

occurrences are NOT displayed, which causes the help topics to be out

of sync with the information they bring up. When this problem occurs,

you may select a topic, and help on a different topic will be

displayed.

One example of this problem occurs when searching on _dos* with the

CLANG.HLP help file that comes with Microsoft C version 6.00. Another

example is found when searching for wm_* in the SDKADV.HLP help file

that comes with the Windows 3.00 Software Development Kit. In both

cases, if you go to the end of the list of topics and bring up the

information, the wrong help will be displayed.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in QuickHelp version

1.70. We are researching this problem and will post new information

here as it becomes available.