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by jimmygrapes 1364 days ago
Quick shout out to the Compiled HTML[0] (.chm) format for similar but unrelated reasons. The Help viewer application was one of the pinnacles of good UX, in my opinion.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help
1 comments
mappu 1363 days ago
A while back at $DAYJOB I tried to get a CI pipeline to bundle our docs as .chm, but the official tooling (hhc, with-or-without Sphinx as a frontend) is windows-only pre-unicode nonsense; the only Linux native chm compiler i found was Halibut (from the author of PuTTY) which has many of its own idiosyncrasies.

Is there any normal-looking way to make a chm from a directory full of html files?

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jimmygrapes 1362 days ago
I haven't made one in ages, but I have heard Calibre might be able to process CHM and possibly even generate it (cannot confirm).

The only working bookmark I have now that standalone MSDN is basically defunct (RIP, legend) is:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/...

(might wanna archive before MS redirects it to welcome.microsoft.com or something)

Not sure if that helps but it's all I got!

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