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chmlib is a small library designed for accessing MS ITSS files. The ITSS file
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format is used for Microsoft Html Help files (.chm), which have been the
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predominant medium for software documentation from Microsoft during the past
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several years, having superceded the previously used .hlp file format.
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In terms of support for the ITSS file format, there are a few places in which
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the support provided by this library is not fully general:
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1. ITSS files whose names contain UTF-8 characters which are not part of the
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ASCII subset will not currently be dealt with gracefully. Currently, the
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filenames are not converted from UTF-8, but are instead returned as-is. I'm
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very interested in hearing any suggestions as to the "right" way to handle
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this.
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2. Only version 3 ITSS files are supported at present, though some work has
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gone towards divining the differences between different versions of the
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file format. It is possible that version 2 ITSS files might work properly
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with this library, but unconfirmed.
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3. Archives larger than 4 GB should be supported just fine, but if they
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contain files larger than 4GB, this library may break. Fortunately, this
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seems somewhat unlikely.
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