Thanks, the docs for one of my cms' (I think phpB) is in that format.

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chmdump works great but it names the files with very non-userfriendly names. If you have VPC you can get the MS HTML Help Workshop app here:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=14188 (3.3mb)

and it will decompile the files nicely with userfriendly names like "Chap01.hmtl", etc.

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Thanks for the tip, I'm trying to run VPC less and less, and definitely will not install the MS update they just released.

It would be nice to have it name the files better, though, so I might use VPC for now.


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I followed the directions to the T, and when I typed in the command make, I got an error saying make: command not found. I'm using 10.2.6. What am I doing wrong?

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If you are not seeing the "make" command available it probably means you have not installed the Developer Tools. Have you?

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Ah ha! You know, that stuff has caused me so many headaches. I haven't installed them. Can I just add them to the current install of OS X 10.2.6?

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OK, I installed the developers tools and the BSD subsystem from the OS X 10.2 Install Disc 1, and I still get the command not found error.

Can someone help please?

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What do you get when you type which make in Terminal.app?

(Man, that sounds like the beginning of a really geeky joke. :) )

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Never mind. Someone else hinted that the command file was not in the path environment which is why it wasn't found. So I moved it there, and now it works just fine.

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Chanler White just announced a Mac OS X binary for xCHM, a Unix CHM viewer. The binary is available on VersionTracker. I've just played around with it for a bit, and it seems to work pretty well. So now you can read the docs without decompiling.

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Open source, free, use WebKit (Safari engine), CHMLIB..
http://freshmeat.net/projects/chmox/

Feedback is welcomed

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I just downloaded CHMOX. It works perfectly. For the first time, I can open CHM files on my Mac without any side steps.

If I may, I would request that more flexible zoom (in and out) be added.

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There are quite a few utilities now for working with compiled html files (.chm) on OS X available now:

CHM Viewer
http://www.jouledata.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid=21

xCHM
http://xchm.sourceforge.net/

Tubby
http://mikebultrowicz.com/software/tubby/

Chmox
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chmox/page/chmox

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UNcomment line 23 of the chmlib.h (Yeah, the one that tell's you it was previously commmented out to build correctly under an earlier OS version):

typedef unsigned short ushort;

Under 10.4.x w/GCC 3.3/4.0 you'll get a bunch of compile warnings (mostly due to mismatched prototypes), but the app should build and work ok.

Of course, I'm not sure why anyone would be messing with this utility anymore, considering the handful of really nice Aqua-native .CHM viewers now available. But there it is...

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Just a side note about .chm's predecessor, .hlp. I have a few .hlp files that I'm trying to decompress, and the software for .chm doesn't work. To decompress .hlp files, the best method I've found requires Windows, unfortunately, but it works.

There is a command-line program called HelpDeco and a GUI for it called HlpDecoGUI. I found both via this page, which was quite helpful. So long as you have a copy of Windows, you can download these programs and get the files into .rtf format, which you can then read on your Mac. If your needs are more complicated, you can use the link above to read how to then convert to .chm, which can then be re-converted to html (thus preserving images, etc.).

I hope this helps you. Good luck!

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