December 31, 2003 at 8:42 am
I want to have SQL2000 Books Online located once on the server rather than each programmer having to load it on their local machine. I have always set up a short cut from the local machine to run the books from the server. With SQL2000, this does not seem to work.
Here is the shortcut I set up:
Target:
\\arbwf1\sql2000\80\Tools\Books\hh.exe \\arbwf1\SQL2000\80\Tools\Books\SQL80.col
(arbwf1 is the server; sql2000 is the share; hh.exe was copied to the Books folder)
Get HELP message “Cannot open the file:\\arbwf1\sql2000\80\tools\books\sql80.col
I also tried to run the hh.exe from my local machine to run the sql80.col on the server.
It also did not work:
c:\windows\hh.exe \\arbwf1\sql2000\80\tools\books\sql80.col
Any ideas to get a local shortcut to run books online from a server would be greatly appreciated.
December 31, 2003 at 10:30 am
Wow, I would have thought this would work. I'll have to experiment with it. Not that BOL seems to be a big deal, updates are few and far between. And the size is pretty small.
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January 1, 2004 at 11:01 am
My first guess, is that it isn't liking the UNC path as a parameter.
If this is really important to you, you might try mapping a drive to the share, and passing that in, instead.
Regards,
Xander
January 2, 2004 at 3:37 am
I tried it some time ago and Xandermo's suggestion will not work. I guess it needs some registry entries, probably HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Help.
I did not consider that practical and did not test that. I gave up and let the shortcut point to setup. Now that I think about it again, maybe a batchfile with a .reg before the hh command will work.
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