If RoboHelp automatically adds these to baggage, I would
delete them. It seems like the whole point of linking to a remote
topic is to access a CHM file that is outside the control of your
own project. If you are going to include this file in your CHM, you
might as well really include it by including the topics in your
CHM. The remote link will work whether the .chm is in baggage or
not.
When RH adds an external file to baggage, any link to that
file calls up the version from baggage rather than the current
version. This can be problematic. I have a help file called
ExperimentalProtocols.chm. It links to another help file called
Instrument.chm that explains how to use the current version of the
instrument software. We need that reference to be dynamic. i.e. the
Instrument.chm must be independent and external to the
ExperimentalProtocols.chm, which we do not modify.
I have not seen RH (version 8) add external .chms to baggage,
but that may just be the way I use it....
John