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!! > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.jolug.org/mailman/listinfo/general_jolug.org > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.jolug.org/mailman/listinfo/general_jolug.org
