opening CHM files?

[Pique]

In article <210720031832571970%blah@blah.com>, blah blah
<blah@blah.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know how to open CHM files on Mac OS X?
>
> any hints etc appreciated...
>
> thanks in advance
>
> --

It's a bit of a pain but you can convert them in the terminal, these
are the instructions I saved from somewhere else:
<quote>
If you're running OSX, you can compile it yourself...

1. Download the file:
([url]http://www.speakeasy.org/~russotto/chm/chmtools.tar.gz[/url])

2. Decompress it from the command line:

-From the directory you've downloaded the file to, type the following
command:

tar xvfz chmtools.tar.gz

This will decompress the file & create a chmtools directory...

3. Compile it using the following commands (I believe you need to have
the development tools installed to do this):

cd chmtools
make

After the make command, you will now have a Mac executable file
entitled chmdump. You can use it to dump the contents of a .chm file...
</quote>
I found I needed to copy chmdump into /.bin to get it to work easily.

There's an easier way if you have a PC:
<quote>
Take the .chm file to a PC or Virtual PC running Win98 or better. Open
a DOS

> window and type this command:
>
> hh.exe -decompile targetfoldername sourcefilename.chm
>
> Move the target folder back to the Mac.
>
> For more details try this web page:
>
> [url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/vscondecomp.asp[/url]
>

</quote>

HTH
Pk

[Pete Lees]

blah blah <blah@blah.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know how to open CHM files on Mac OS X?

As I understand it, you'd need to install a PC emulator like Virtual PC to do this.

[url]http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc6m.html[/url]

--
Pete (Microsoft Help MVP)

[blah blah]

In article <220720030847451306%pk@ill_check_the_newsgroup.com >, Pique
<pk@ill_check_the_newsgroup.com> wrote:

> In article <210720031832571970%blah@blah.com>, blah blah
> <blah@blah.com> wrote:
>

> > Does anyone know how to open CHM files on Mac OS X?
> >
> > any hints etc appreciated...
> >
> > thanks in advance
> >
> > --

> It's a bit of a pain but you can convert them in the terminal, these
> are the instructions I saved from somewhere else:

a bit of a pain might be the understatement of the day :-)

thanks for the info, time to dload the dev tool again and start
converting <grrrr>


thanks for the pc link, we actually have a few here at work, I knew
these things could be useful for something other than heating :-)

> <quote>
> If you're running OSX, you can compile it yourself...
>
> 1. Download the file:
> ([url]http://www.speakeasy.org/~russotto/chm/chmtools.tar.gz[/url])
>
> 2. Decompress it from the command line:
>
> -From the directory you've downloaded the file to, type the following
> command:
>
> tar xvfz chmtools.tar.gz
>
> This will decompress the file & create a chmtools directory...
>
> 3. Compile it using the following commands (I believe you need to have
> the development tools installed to do this):
>
> cd chmtools
> make
>
> After the make command, you will now have a Mac executable file
> entitled chmdump. You can use it to dump the contents of a .chm file...
> </quote>
> I found I needed to copy chmdump into /.bin to get it to work easily.
>
> There's an easier way if you have a PC:
> <quote>
> Take the .chm file to a PC or Virtual PC running Win98 or better. Open
> a DOS

> > window and type this command:
> >
> > hh.exe -decompile targetfoldername sourcefilename.chm
> >
> > Move the target folder back to the Mac.
> >
> > For more details try this web page:
> >
> > [url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/vscondecomp.asp[/url]
> >

> </quote>
>
> HTH
> Pk

[Matthew Russotto]

In article <210720031832571970%blah@blah.com>,
blah blah <blah@blah.com> wrote:

>Does anyone know how to open CHM files on Mac OS X?

It's only a command line tool, but
[url]http://www.speakeasy.net/~russotto/chm[/url]

Dumps the CHM to HTML.
--
Matthew T. Russotto [email]mrussotto@speakeasy.net[/email]
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue." But extreme restriction of liberty in pursuit of
a modicum of security is a very expensive vice.

[blah blah]

cool, I'll give it a whirl...


In article <Cb2dnTVPUOzay4CiXTWc-g@speakeasy.net>, Matthew Russotto
<russotto@grace.speakeasy.net> wrote:

> [url]http://www.speakeasy.net/~russotto/chm[/url]