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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">My take on this is that the TomTom
FAT32 use is not necessarily relevant. It depends. If you build
CHM technology into the engine then that would probably be
relevant, but if you use Windows to display CHM then it is
probably not relevant. The Sword Project for Windows used CHM for
its help files. That is exactly what CHM was made for. <br>
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CHM is pretty simple. At its heart it uses HTML files and linked
images and such. The compiler takes a set of HTML files, linked
files, and adds indexing and search functionality. It is also
possible to decompile CHM and get the HTML and other files that
were compiled into it. Of course you want to be sure anything from
that if you use it is PD, open source, or otherwise legitimate to
use. Note that decompiling could possibly be considered reverse
engineering so you need to consider terms of use and the laws of
whatever jurisdiction you are in. Those issues though are not with
Microsoft but with the party that compiled the CHM. In my opinion.<br>
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Jerry<br>
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On 6/20/2019 3:31 PM, Michael H wrote:<br>
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CHM is not exactly opensource. Microsoft successfully sued
TomTom for using FAT32 formatting in it's GPS systems without
paying any royalties to Microsoft. That's the old (Gates,
Balmer) Microsoft, but still it's a proprietary technology by
a company with a history of using litigation on technologies
just to shut people down. <br>
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I don't see Crosswire as being a target by microsoft, but
sometimes people with intent to harm license technology just
to make it something to rattle... I'd feel a lot more
comfortable using a known-opensource technology. <br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:41
AM <a href="mailto:refdoc@crosswire.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">refdoc@crosswire.org</a> <<a
href="mailto:refdoc@crosswire.org" moz-do-not-send="true">refdoc@crosswire.org</a>>
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while back I wrote about Bibleworks and its legacy. As part of
my further research I found that Bibleworks uses instead of a
GenBook format for user supplied books of that category the
CHM format. <br>
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How ubiquitous is CHM on our platforms? If all platforms can
use it , we could probably tap into a huge GenBook like module
library - specifically for textual research - for very little
extra effort. <br>
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Peter<br>
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Petee<br>
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