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== Identification ==
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Files start with hex {{magic|49 54 53 46 03 00 00 00}}, which the first four bytes is ASCII "ITSF", for Info-Tech Storage Format, the generic data file format by Microsoft.
  
 
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== Sample files ==
 
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* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/document/chm/
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== Links and references ==

Latest revision as of 02:50, 30 June 2024

File Format
Name CHM
Ontology
Extension(s) .chm
MIME Type(s) application/vnd.ms-htmlhelp
PRONOM fmt/634
Released 1997

CHM (Compiled HTML Help), AKA Microsoft Help 1, is a Microsoft format for help files. While it is proprietary, it has been reverse engineered, and many software applications can read it.

It is a compressed binary file format, including content in HTML as well as other related data.

Microsoft Help 2 was intended as a successor, but never saw much use.

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[edit] Identification

Files start with hex 49 54 53 46 03 00 00 00, which the first four bytes is ASCII "ITSF", for Info-Tech Storage Format, the generic data file format by Microsoft.

[edit] Format description

[edit] Software

[edit] Sample files

[edit] Links and references

[edit] See also

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