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chm is a great format for online help and reference. features such as full text search, index, toc, favourites, low resource usage, being based on html, and being-all-in-one-file make it the best help system i have found. i learned whole programming languages by just reading and referencing chm files.
i would have learned more - and the ones i knew before faster - if there had been chm references for them. unfortunately, there weren't. to remedy that, i got myself the free HTML Help Workshop, the Total Commander CHMdir plugin, and some other tools (see below) and spent some time building my own chm's. and here they are.
some more links of interest: Parabox Blog » W3C-specifications in CHM, XML Standards Library, htmlhelp - Google Code
| Name | Last modified | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| abs-guide-5.0.chm | 25-Aug-2007 18:28 | 970K | Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide, revision 5.0.07, 16 August 2007. sgml sources to xml via opensp, xml to chm with the usual docbook xsl tool chain. |
| ActivePerl-5.8.8.chm | 28-Sep-2007 01:27 | 9.0M | an updated chm for ActivePerl 5.8.8.822. build using an updated version of the updated version of my updated version of HelpDocUpdate.pl :) and some manual fixes. |
| bzr-0.90.chm | 04-Sep-2007 19:06 | 536K | Bazaar (bzr) 0.90.0 doc |
| cvs.chm | 07-Jan-2004 09:00 | 345K | i couldn't stand that cvs.hlp included in WinCVS anymore - so i did my own chm. made from the source of cvs 1.11.6 w/ a customized texi2html.py |
| diveintopython-5.4.chm | 10-Sep-2004 23:30 | 778K | a chm version of the fine python book. i removed the header line containing "logo", tagline, and google search box from every page: to fit more text, and to not duplicate chm-inherent full-text-search. |
| drupal-6.chm | 12-Feb-2008 10:13 | 4.1M | Drupal 6 API documentation from my Drupal site |
| html401.chm | 07-Jan-2004 09:00 | 613K | HTML 4.01 Specification, incl. complete TOC + Index. the first chm in my collection, handmade |
| Modeling_UserGuide.chm | 10-Feb-2004 19:53 | 207K | User's Guide of the great Apple EOF like Object-Relational Bridge for python |
| mod_python_3.3.1.chm | 23-Mar-2007 10:16 | 239K | wget -nd -np -p -m -k http://www.modpython.org/live/mod_python-3.3.1/doc-html/; prechm.py -v mod_python .; some adjustments with far; compilation - and here we are :) |
| PEAR.chm | 07-Jan-2004 09:00 | 1.7M | api doc for PEAR (base installation + HTML_Template_IT + HTML_Template_PHPTAL (+ required packages) + PHPUnit) generated w/ doxygen |
| phpDocumentor.chm | 07-Jan-2004 09:00 | 1.1M | phpDocumentor - Javadoc for PHP. has its own chm convertor |
| PHPTAL_manual-1.3.chm | 14-Aug-2008 19:21 | 59K | PHPTAL Manual |
| PHPUnit_Pocket_Guide-3.3.chm | 14-Aug-2008 20:22 | 310K | PHPUnit Pocket Guide |
| php_manual_chm.11-Aug-2008.zip | 11-Aug-2008 04:17 | 18M | no chm version of the php manual since 08 Dec 2007? here is an updated build from 11 Aug 2008, including the new structure, new license, and improved documentation. |
| rst.chm | 03-Jan-2005 11:55 | 1.0M | a newer docutils.chm |
| svk-book.chm | 27-Sep-2007 14:01 | 372K | Version Control with SVK, for SVK 1.04, book revision 120. compiled from source with a little change to Makefile.base. |
| svn-book.chm | 04-Feb-2008 12:42 | 830K | Version Control with Subversion, for Subversion 1.5, compiled from book revision 2976 |
| symfony-r5586.chm | 19-Oct-2007 00:46 | 1.3M | symfony (open-source PHP web framework), the Definitive Guide/Book, rev 5586. Markdown source to DocBook XML via Pandoc, XML to chm via DocBook XSL and quite some hints from here. |
| Zend_Framework_1.6_EN.chm | 04-Sep-2008 07:48 | 1.7M | Programmer's Reference Guide for Zend Framework 1.6. added missing icons, prev/next navigation, some stylesheet improvements. |
| _bak/ | 04-Sep-2008 14:21 | - | deprecated versions |