@acer Just to get some programming advice .. the use of numelems in your code will not work prior to Maple15.  I replaced numelems with nops to get it to work.  I know numelems is the same as nops if G were a list or set, as it says in the help file, but I don't think that's a direct translation.

Is there a better programming translation of numelems?  or could you explain what that line actually does?

Another query - is there a way to use system[launch] or ssystem in place of worksheet:-DisplayFile?

@acer I did relaunch and wasn't able to see it in the help pages.

I will try again shortly

I changed the copied location of the three files to just the homedir and during convert I get an error

But still nothing shows up in the help

For older versions of Maple (ie Maple 12)  Maplets[Examples][GetFile] would be the way to go.

**edit** actually it's an alternate  filedialog does exist in Maple12

I'm sure this is just as frustrating for you to try to explain to me what to do but I recieve an error.

Error, on line 2, unexpected end of input
Error, while reading ``C:\Users\laptop22\maple.ini``

@acer Great!  That is what I was looking for.  The filedialog command in particular.

@acer I will definitely try that when I get home from work.

@Bryon 

sin(exp(x^2));
                             /   / 2\\
                          sin\exp\x //

The snipping tool works however selecting a portion of maple code and pasting it in the example above still shows 1d code.  I believe it used to show code in 2d?  That portion of the copy and paste still requires fixing.  Thanks for fixing the snip part of it.

kernelopts(homedir)
                                     "C:\Users\laptop22"

I put the Maple.ini file in that directory.

The initialization file then pointed Maple to go to c:/Advisor where the 3 files are stored.
libname:="c:/Advisor/",libname

There was no message about hdb -> help migration.   I also notice libname is also entered under the variable list in the Variables palette.

***edit added***

I can get it to work in Maple 12.  Even after converting the .hdb file to a .help file (using the HelpTools:-Database:-convertall("c:/Advisor") ) I don't see why the same method for reading the helpfile in M12 doesn't work for Maple 2016.

Perhaps this is why it's not working.  Robert Israels help database is indeed in hdb format.

From the help pages

Maple Help Database (.hdb) Format

HDB file format

@acer oops sorry miswording on my part.

let me try something

@acer No, putting the files in the homedir does not work.  The help pages for the Maple Advisor database are still not available in Maple 2016

@acer No I didn't.  I had put it in the installed Maple 2016 folder (not near maple now) I don't know if that would make a difference.

@acer That explains why it works in M12 and not in M2016.  I'll give that a try.

**added** update
Creating a Maple.ini file and inseriting libname:="c:/Advisor/",libname:  - I created a new directory - unfortunately does not work.
In M12 a new help title called Advisor comes up in the help file.  Haven't tried kernelopts yet.

From here http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel/advisor/

Ironically I tried loading this in Maple 2016 and could not get help to pick it up.

I did...

Create folder c:/MapleAdvisor/advisor/  where I unzipped the files
libname := libname, `c:/MapleAdvisor/advisor`

?advisor

Just the normal help files came up.  I'm sure I got this working in the past however I do not remember the solution.  Anyone?