another good app to view CHM http://gnochm.sourceforge.net/ which is
doing better job for me than xchm






On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 12:44 +0000, Saleh Odeh wrote:
> Hails..
> 
> I dont think this qualifies as a gotcha'.. but i thought id just share it 
> anyway..
> 
> I spent about 4 hours yesterday trying to figure out a way to [effectively] 
> open .chm (M$ compiled html) files under linux.. it was getting pretty 
> annoying.. rebooting to windows everytime i needed to open a file.. i tried 
> everything, from paid-for solutions.. to daemon-based servers  that dump 
> their [supposedly] readable interpretations of chm onto a local http port.. 
> (WHY!?).. n just in case youre wondering.. theyre all just big jokes!
> 
> I did however finally find an amazing project on sourceforge today.. namely, 
> Xchm.. no strange prerequisites.. just chmlib--> ( 
> http://66.93.236.84/%7Ejedwin/projects/chmlib/ )
> 
> for xchm itself -->   http://xchm.sourceforge.net/
> 
> having said all that, it does have a weakness.. doesnt tend to work very 
> well with some  javascript embedding ebooks..
> 
> apart from that its amazing!!
> 
> 
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