How to use Internet Explorer With ObjecTime 5.1 and Win NT

Setup

To explain how to use Internet Explorer instead of Netscape as the default help system browser with Windows NT 4.0 and ObjecTime 5.1.

Any Windows NT 4.0 User

ObjecTime 5.1

This really only applies to ObjecTime 5.1

ObjecTime 5.1 does not ship with IE support for two reasons:

1. No cross platform support (i.e. Unix etc.), and
2. IE 3.0 has a bug that prevents it from accessing the indexing function, so if you use IE 3.0 you will get errors.

However, with the advent of IE 4.0 you can use IE. First you must setup your system with IE 4.0 a preview is available from

http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/download

The full release is due out Sept 30, 1997. Then edit the file

<drive you installed OT on>:/ObjecTime/Developer5.1/bin/winnt4/ObjecTimeStartHelp

as follows:

ORIGINAL CODE:

 @echo off
 if not .0BJECTIME_VIEWER%. == .. goto continue1
 set OBJECTIME_VIEWER=netscape

 :continue1

 start "ObjecTime Help" 0BJECTIME_VIEWER%1#%2 2>nul

 if not errorlevel 1 goto end
 echo Could not execute command "0BJECTIME_VIEWER%"
 exit 1

 :end

NEW CODE:

 @echo off
 if not .0BJECTIME_VIEWER%. == .. goto continue1
 set OBJECTIME_VIEWER=iexplore

 :continue1

 set OBJECTIME_VIEWER=iexplore
 start "ObjecTime Help" 0BJECTIME_VIEWER%1#%2 2>nul

 if not errorlevel 1 goto end
 echo Could not execute command "0BJECTIME_VIEWER%"
 exit 1

 :end

Then when you select help under ObjecTime Internet Explorer will be used.

If you try this with Internet Explorer 3.0 you will get errors.

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