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Specific case: Added vcdocsvs2019_70 to MS Help Viewer during initial install.  Now have installed Patch Update 16 and have vcdocsvs2019_70_pu16_318103.  How do I apply/update the locally loaded the Help Viewer content with the pu16 version, or do I remove the original content and add the pu16 version?  Aren't the updates to the Help Viewer content cumulative?  If not then why is pu16's MicroFocusVisualCOBOL.cab only two thirds the size of the original?

I don't want to "lose" any of the content.  I would appreciate any guidance as to best practices,  The Help Viewer help and what I can find in the Micro Focus content isn't clear to me for this specific situation.

Specific case: Added vcdocsvs2019_70 to MS Help Viewer during initial install.  Now have installed Patch Update 16 and have vcdocsvs2019_70_pu16_318103.  How do I apply/update the locally loaded the Help Viewer content with the pu16 version, or do I remove the original content and add the pu16 version?  Aren't the updates to the Help Viewer content cumulative?  If not then why is pu16's MicroFocusVisualCOBOL.cab only two thirds the size of the original?

I don't want to "lose" any of the content.  I would appreciate any guidance as to best practices,  The Help Viewer help and what I can find in the Micro Focus content isn't clear to me for this specific situation.

The Manage Content window of the Help Viewer will only allow you to install one version of the Visual COBOL Help at a time.
The .msha help files are complete versions.

To install the latest docs from a Patch Update, remove the current docs and then add the new one.

The Manage Content window of the Help Viewer will only allow you to install one version of the Visual COBOL Help at a time.
The .msha help files are complete versions.

To install the latest docs from a Patch Update, remove the current docs and then add the new one.

OK, thank you Chris.  Understood.  The fact that pu16's MicroFocusVisualCOBOL.cab is so much smaller than the original made me think that it MIGHT be transactional vice cumulative.  So I had to ask.

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