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[[CHM]] (Compiled HTML Help) is a Microsoft format for help files. While it is proprietary, it has been reverse engineered, and many software applications can read it.
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[[CHM]] (Compiled HTML Help), AKA '''Microsoft Help 1''', is a Microsoft format for help files. While it is proprietary, it has been reverse engineered, and many software applications can read it.
  
 
It is a compressed binary file format, including content in [[HTML]] as well as other related data.
 
It is a compressed binary file format, including content in [[HTML]] as well as other related data.
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== See also ==
 
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* [[Microsoft Help 2]]
 
* [[HLP (WinHelp)]]
 
* [[HLP (WinHelp)]]
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[[Category:Hypermedia]]

Revision as of 10:52, 23 November 2020

File Format
Name CHM
Ontology
Extension(s) .chm
MIME Type(s) application/vnd.ms-htmlhelp
PRONOM fmt/634
Released 1997

CHM (Compiled HTML Help), AKA Microsoft Help 1, is a Microsoft format for help files. While it is proprietary, it has been reverse engineered, and many software applications can read it.

It is a compressed binary file format, including content in HTML as well as other related data.

Contents

Format description

Software

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See also

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