Microsoft Compiled HTML Help: Difference between revisions

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'''[[Microsoft Compressed HTML Help]]''' is a proprietary format for [[Help (online)|online help]] files. They have a set of web pages written in a subset of [[HTML]] and a [[hyperlink]]ed table of contents. CHM format is optimized for read, as files are heavily indexed. All files are compressed together with an [[LZX (algorithm)|LZX compression]] . Most CHM browsers display a table of contents on the left.

A CHM help file has a ".chm" or ".CHM" suffix. The file starts with bytes "ITSF" (in ASCII), for "InfoTech Storage Format".