[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: IDE -- accessing help topics offline

[Jeff Myers <myersj@xxxxxxxxx>]

What is the error you're receiving? The help system does not actually 
connect over the internet to access help - rather it starts up an 
instance of Tomcat to serve the web pages from localhost.  So IE opens 
and attempts to connect to the Tomcat server on your local machine, 
which should work even when you're disconnected from the internet.

 - Jeff

Bob Hairgrove wrote:
> I just installed Eclipse 3.1.1 on a machine (Windows 2000 Prof.) which 
> is never connected to the internet. When I choose "Help Contents" from 
> the Help menu, I get an error from Internet Explorer because Eclipse 
> apparently wants to connect to online help. So I downloaded the help 
> files in PDF format.
>
> Is it somehow possible to get Eclipse to open those from the Help menu? 
> Thanks!