RE: CHMs, DFDs, and TGIF

["sbuckley" <sbuckley -at- onlinewriter -dot- com>]

Not quite.  There is a Help viewer separate from the browser.  At one point
MS really wanted to depreciate this viewer and system. That didn't work for
everyone, not even everyone at MS.  MS has since changed it's opinion of
.chm files and the viewer for the time being.

If your users are using XP or early Vista, I recommend you test to make such
.chm files will work. More than likely if they have other MS programs
outside of the big ones they'll have the viewer.  But check to make sure.
Make sure to use your users' configuration.   

-----Original Message-----
From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com] 
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 3:50 PM
To: sbuckley; Tony Chung; TECHWR-L Writing
Subject: RE: CHMs, DFDs, and TGIF

sbuckley wrote: 
 
> You can still provide .chm as long as the viewer is available on the
user's
> computer.  As noted in another post earlier MS is still providing .chm
> files
> so more than likely the .chm viewer is there.  Test on a computer you
think
> your users will have to make sure.  Otherwise you can, last I looked,
> provide the .chm viewer as part of your install.

The .chm viewer is Internet Explorer 4.0 or newer, and it's on every
Windows PC running Win 98 or newer. 


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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