Talk:Microsoft Compiled HTML Help

message: In ubuntu it's libchm-bin instead of chmlib-bin. Is this only for ubuntu or...?--NESFreak 15:28, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: True for Debian too Optimix 00:51, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  unix lib chm 

message: The chmtools are not included in Fink. I could not find an indication they ever were. The only available version of the tools are available as CVS only, and therefore cannot be installed by everyday users.
I haven't tried MacPorts yet, but search indicates a similar situation.
In short, it seems there is no way to dump .chm files on MacOSX.
:I think the article covers pretty everything you would want to know, except for fink on Mac. I don't have a Mac available at the moment, but a search gives you right, there is no chmtools package . However, see this guide to build xchm. Cheers, --Ben  T/C  09:28, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  chm on MacOSX: chmtools package not included in Fink 

message: 7Zip (open source) also decompresses CHM files, so it might be worth a mention in the article. 72.200.152.234 14:36, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  7Zip also decompresses CHM files 

message: I can't find a reference for the name "Compressed" help.  Microsoft appears to consistently call it "Compiled" help (see this API intro, for example) or use your favorite search engine and compare hits.  Please correct me if I'm wrong; otherwise, I'll move the article. Matchups 10:46, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure if this has changed since the above comment was made, but the official name is now Microsoft HTML Help. I will change the article name if no one objects. --Cornellier (talk) 13:27, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name 

message: Quoting: "They have since announced their intentions not to develop the .CHM format further". Please add a reference for this one.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.190.253.145 (talk) 22:19, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requesting reference 

message: As a newbie contributor, I'll post this here for someone else to edit on the article page:
Recent security updates to Windows have disabled routine access to .chm files as described in: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902225
:NOTE: access through Internet Explorer, and access to remote/download chm files, is not 'routine access' 203.206.162.148 (talk) 06:27, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Registry modification to permit viewing of .chm files on local intranets 

message: Is there any relation to Structured storage? This also appears to be subfilesystem. Shinobu 09:56, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any relation to Structured storage? 

message: Free Pascal has a (LGPL with static linking exception) CHM library with read/write support, as well as an fulltext indexing engine.  The write support is "generating" chm mostly though, not adding/modifying existing CHMs. (though you could achieve that using a decompilation step followed by a compilation step). Its textmode IDE allows to browse CHMs in textmode.
It is used for the FPC documentation tools mainly. It works on all FPC supported targets (including stuff like DOS). It's not a chmlib port, but a new implementation based on the open spec.
FPC based Lazarus (software) uses this library too.
88.159.74.100 (talk) 16:18, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free Pascal CHM support 

message: The page says in several places that CHM is dated. I immediately believe that (since there is htmlhelp2, and MS is working on htmlhelp 3 for some next VS version), no discussion there.
However I do think that the comments that CHM is replaced in Vista by .mht etc are a bit premature, specially if I look in my Windows 7 "windows" folder, and can't find a single .mht file, and heaps of CHM files.
Probably this comment is based on helpsystems packaged with developer tools,(such as VS that also has used htmlhelp2, aka .HxS), rather than what is really what is packaged with Windows client OSes. As far as I know, CHM is still the most recent helpfile system installed by client Windows OSes.
88.159.72.252 (talk) 21:26, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replacement/deprecation 

message: On Windows, a CHM file can be extracted to plain HTML with the command: ( ... )
the mentioned command fails (silently) if the .chm file has a space in the filename, maybe add that information?
(87.184.192.236 (talk) 08:18, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows hh.exe command 

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