From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-07-31T17:42:55+09:00
Subject: Re: CHM files?

On 31/07/06, Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> wrote:
> In Debian Linux, there's a group of "libchm" packages that
> offer an API and tools to unpack Windows Compiled Help Module
> files. A lot of EBooks are delivered this way, including the
> Ruby Book, and it's always bugged me that I have no Linux
> option for reading them (I know the Ruby book is available as
> HTML, but it isn't as easy to use as the Windows help viewer).

You could use xchm, which is very much like the Windows viewer:
http://xchm.sourceforge.net/

(Note for OS X users: xchm works on OS X, but chmox is better:
http://chmox.sourceforge.net/)

Paul.