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Help is delivered as a binary file with the .chm extension. It contains a set of HTML files, a [[hyperlink]]ed table of contents, and an index file. The file format has been reverse-engineered and documentation of it is freely available.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wise |first=Paul |last2=Wing |first2=Jed |title=Unofficial (Preliminary) HTML Help Specification |url=http://www.nongnu.org/chmspec/latest/index.html |year=2005 |accessdate=15 August 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Palade |first=Alexandru |title=Archive::Chm |url=https://metacpan.org/pod/Archive::Chm |year=2005 |accessdate=22 July 2014 }}</ref>
 
The file starts with bytes "ITSF" (in [[ASCII]]), for "Info-Tech Storage Format", which is the internal name given by Microsoft to the generic storage file format used in withfor CHM files.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Virus Bulletin :: Chamber of horrors|url=https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2006/10/chamber-horrors/|access-date=2022-01-05|website=www.virusbulletin.com}}</ref>
 
CHM files support the following features: