CHM was a replacement for an even weirder format (HLP, and its reader WINHELP) carried over from Windows 3.0. It was a gopher-like hierarchy of hypertext pages, but with RTF-based formatting as opposed to HTML, and a weird, proprietary container format. Given that context, CHM meant some progress.
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CHM was a replacement for an even weirder format (HLP, and its reader WINHELP) carried over from Windows 3.0. It was a gopher-like hierarchy of hypertext pages, but with RTF-based formatting as opposed to HTML, and a weird, proprietary container format. Given that context, CHM meant some progress.