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 CHM.
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Spec.
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  http://www.nongnu.org/chmspec/
                HTML Help Projects
  http://www.nongnu.org/chmspec/latest/
                Unofficial (Preliminary) HTML Help Specification
  http://www.speakeasy.org/~russotto/chm/chmformat.html
                Matthew Russotto's Microsoft's HTML Help format description
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms669980.aspx
                HTML Help Frequently Asked Questions

Alternatives.
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  http://www.imendio.com/projects/devhelp/
                DevHelp is a GNOME based online help system aimed toward developers
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML
                MHTML, short for MIME HTML

Microsoft HTML Help.
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  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms669985
                Microsoft HTML Help Downloads
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269766/
                INFO: Limited Unicode Support in HTML Help

Microsoft HTML Help under Debian.
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Set Wine's Windows version to Windows 2000 (or above), and add an override to
use the native itss.dll, both via ``winecfg``::

  wine winecfg

Download `Microsoft HTML Help Workshop
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/hwMicrosoftHTMLHelpDownloads.asp>`_
and install it as::

  wine htmlhelp.exe

Install itircl.dll and itss.dll as::

  cabextract -F hhupd.exe htmlhelp.exe
  cabextract -F itircl.dll hhupd.exe
  cabextract -F itss.dll hhupd.exe
  cp -a itircl.dll ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/
  cp -a itss.dll ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/
  wine regsvr32 /s 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\itircl.dll'
  wine regsvr32 /s 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\itss.dll'

Download `Microsoft Foundation Classes update
<http://activex.microsoft.com/controls/vc/mfc40.cab>`_, extract it, and install
it as::

  wget http://activex.microsoft.com/controls/vc/mfc40.cab
  cabextract mfc40.cab
  wine mfc40.exe
  wget -N http://activex.microsoft.com/controls/vc/mfc40.cab
  cabextract -F mfc40.exe mfc40.cab
  cabextract -F mfc40.dll mfc40.exe
  cp -a mfc40.dll ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/

See:

 * http://code.google.com/p/htmlhelp/wiki/HHW4Wine

Viewer.
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::

  $ sudo apt-get install xchm
  $ sudo apt-get install gnochm