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Title: chm files on Amiga?
Post by: AmigaMance on June 20, 2007, 07:31:01 PM

 Anyone knows an Amiga viewer or converter capable of handling .chm files?

Title: Re: chm files on Amiga?
Post by: meega on June 20, 2007, 08:16:11 PM

 :-? What on earth for?

Title: Re: chm files on Amiga?
Post by: orange on June 20, 2007, 08:34:14 PM

ebooks?

Title: Re: chm files on Amiga?
Post by: AmigaMance on June 20, 2007, 09:40:36 PM

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ebooks?

 Yes.

Title: Re: chm files on Amiga?
Post by: skurk on June 20, 2007, 10:26:55 PM

CHM is Microsoft's format for .hlp files.  Kind of like a binary version of AmigaGuide :)

Here's (http://www.wotsit.org/list.asp?search=chm) some technical specs on the format.  Far from complete, but it's a start.

Title: Re: chm files on Amiga?
Post by: bigdan on June 20, 2007, 10:45:53 PM

Amigamance : what special .chm file you need ? You've lot of ebooks ?

Only old "Windows2000" CHM v1.xx seems documented. On Zindoz you could use the HTML Workshop 1.31 program...

Obviously the v2.xx CHM version (Windows XP) is not yet well documented.

Avoid to use those filformat (just a proprietary M$oft format) that seems just html and rdf files and images joined and compressed in LZX advanced method...

All Linux and MacOS X viewers seems use CHMLib (http://www.jedrea.com/chmlib/) that was not yet ported on AmigaOS / MorphOS i guess...

Title: Re: chm files on Amiga?
Post by: AmigaMance on June 20, 2007, 11:05:24 PM

@skurk

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CHM is Microsoft's format for .hlp files. Kind of like a binary version of AmigaGuide :)

Here's some technical specs on the format. Far from complete, but it's a start.

 Thanks for the information you provided


@bigdan

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Amigamance : what special .chm file you need ?

 I can't say that i NEED one. I just came across with a few of them.

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You've lot of ebooks ?

 No. I have found some of them in torrent indexing sites.

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All Linux and MacOS X viewers seems use CHMLib that was not yet ported on AmigaOS / MorphOS i guess...

 Nothing surprising...

Title: Re: chm files on Amiga?
Post by: Piru on June 20, 2007, 11:10:39 PM

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All Linux and MacOS X viewers seems use CHMLib that was not yet ported on AmigaOS / MorphOS i guess...

That's probably because there is nothing to port (http://www.iki.fi/sintonen/temp/chmlib.txt).