[plug] CHM files

[James Budworth]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 01:36, Arie Hol wrote:
> On 23 Oct 2004 at 22:06, Evert van Dijk wrote:
> 
> > has anyone been able to do anything with .chm files
> > I know that they are M$ compressed HTML help files.
> > Basically a file consisting of a website that you can browse offline
> 
> They are not HTML files at all.
> They are the standard form of help files with Windows (since about Win98SE.)
> .chm files are actually "compiled help modules" and I think you will find they are binary.
> 
> Try running them under Wine ( but that's a wild guess on my part)
> 
> Regards Arie

They can either be read with xchm 
http://xchm.sourceforge.net/

or converted to plain html with archmage
http://archmage.sf.net/

-- 
James Budworth