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Bakhtiyor
Asked: 2010-12-11 02:38:41 +0800 CST

chmsee not opening php manual

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I have chmsee 1.0.7 installed on Ubuntu 10.04. It opens a small chm files (1Mb or 2Mb files) but when I try to open php manual chm file which weights about 10Mb it doesn't open it and doesn't show any error message.

Where is the problem? Has anybody met this problem ever?

10.04 chm chmsee

2 Answers

  1. Use xchm Install xchm it works fine for me.

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  2. Best Answer

    In the google code htmlhelp link: http://code.google.com/p/htmlhelp/wiki/CHM

    you can see all the viewers and some formats that happen to be in some chm and not others. That is why you can see in perfect condition some and not others.

    This is just a seccion of the above link:

    Format

    Microsoft never released the format specification, but there are a few reverse engineered descriptions of the format:

    • Unofficial CHM Specification
    • Matthew Russotto's Microsoft's HTML Help format description

    There are some tools which allow to read the contents of CHM files:

    • CHMLIB
    • libmspack — a library for Microsoft compression formats

    Viewers

    • Microsoft HTML Help Viewer
    • xCHM — a CHM viewer for UNIX (Linux, BSD, Solaris), written by Razvan Cojocaru
    • JouleData Solutions' CHM Viewer — a comercial 100% native Cocoa .chm file viewer for the Mac OS X platform
    • GnoCHM — a CHM file viewer. It is designed to integrate nicely with Gnome.
    • chmviewer
    • ChmSee
    • Chmox — a Mac OS X CHM viewer
    • KchmViewer — a Qt/KDE based viewer of CHM files
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