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ARCHMAGE(1) General Commands Manual ARCHMAGE(1)

NAME

archmage - CHM(Compiled HTML) Decompressor.

SYNOPSIS

archmage chmfile directory
 
archmage -p port chmfile

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the archmage command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
arCHMage is an extensible reader and decompiler for files in the CHM format. This is the format used by Microsoft HTML Help, and is also known as Compiled HTML. arCHMage is based on python-chm binding to chmlib from GnoCHM project.

USAGE

There is three ways to use arCHMage package now:
1) Extract .chm to directory (directory will be created):
archmage <chmfile> <directory>
2) Run as http-server, which will publish chm file contents on specified port:
archmage -p <port> <chmfile>
3) Tune your apache to publish chm file contents if there is trailing slash in request to that file (you will need working mod_python for that):
Add that lines to your httpd.conf:
AddHandler python-program .chm
 
PythonHandler archmod.mod_chm
Restart apache.
Let's suppose, you have file sample.chm in DocumentRoot of your apache. After that tuning you can receive raw chm file, if you point your browser to
http://yourserver/sample.chm
or you can view chm file on the fly if you point your browser to
http://yourserver/sample.chm/ (note trailing slash)

FILES

/etc/archmage/arch.conf
System-wide configuration file.

SEE ALSO

arCHMage Home Page: http://archmage.sf.net

AUTHOR

arCHMage was written by Eugeny Korekin <az@ftc.ru>
This manual page was written by Basil Shubin <bashu@users.sourceforge.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
February 24, 2006