[winGRASS] accessing help files with IE

[John Robertson]

1. From the GUI (display manager), when I click on
Help, GRASS Help,
IE loads
C:\cygwin\usr\local\grass-6.0.0\docs\html\index.html

2. and if from ../index.html, I then click on
imagery commands, i.caa
IE loads
C:\cygwin\usr\local\grass-6.0.0\docs\html\i.cca.html

3. In the GUI (display manager), if I click on
Image, Transform image, Canonical component, Help
IE tries to but cannot load
http:///usr/local/grass-6.0.0/docs/html/i.cca.html

4. In the IE address box, if I replace
http://
with
c:/cygwin
( I used slashes but back-slashes may work as well)
so that the address box now reads
c:/cygwin/usr/local/grass-6.0.0/docs/html/i.cca.html
it loads the requested help file
which we can see is the help file we were able to load from the main GUI 
(display manager) screen,
in 2., above.

Is there something (e.g., environment variable?) that could be set so that 
when "http://" is called for, what will actually be used is "c:/cygwin"

I found that if, the first time I did that, I copied "c:/cygwin" into the 
windows clipboard, in later use of other help files other than from the 
main GUI (display manager) screen, when I got the error message, I could 
select "http://" and paste the "c:/cygwin" as a replacement.  Clunky, but 
it works.

Any other fix or workaround?