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I am posting this reply to Colin so that all can see. My knowledge of Mac systems is limited but as I understand it Wine Bottler is a version of Wine tailored for the Mac OS and I guess it needs some one with knowledge of that Bottler- Mac pairing to answer your question, I am sorry it is beyond me!...

Thank you Mike for your positive response and appologies to Adrian for calling him Bruce. Wine does deal with .chm files so far as I know, the problem seems to be with the call made from the help menu in FH which, when made, causes the program to crash in my V 5 install. Will follow your sugestion a...

Thank you Bruce, Colin and Mike, In principal I agree that the problem would ideally be sorted by a 'perfect' version of Wine. However, it is inherent in the nature of Wine programs that the community developers are always trying to catch up with developments in Windows and Windows based programs. O...

I have successfully installed a registered copy of V5.0.7 on Linux, Ubuntu 12.04 using Wine v 1.4. This gives a workable install. There are two obvious problems. 1) Clicking on the help files can't access the .chm (compiled HTML help files) and shuts down the programme. There is an easy workround to...