CHM on non-Windows OSes (Re: RoboHelp: Ready to Publish...how do I do that?)

[Janet Swisher <jmswisher -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
>> A .chm generally has to be downloaded to the local hard drive. And it
>> won't work on non-Windows platforms.
>
>
> Correction: Only Windows ships with a built in application to open CHM
> files. There are equivalent helper applications for Mac and UNIX that
> opens CHM files. When I switched to Mac last fall, I searched and
> found Chmox, and now I can read my favourite CHM manuals and eBooks
> with a simple double click.

The Ubuntu 9.10 distribution of GNU/Linux includes kchmviewer, and
many of the apps that are packaged with Ubuntu use it for displaying
their help.

However, many Unix/Linux distributions do not include it, so you need
to either limit your target platforms, or provide instructions on
installing kchmviewer.

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