Re: Patch file to update CHM help file

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From: Hans-Peter Diettrich
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 21:29

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Robert Small wrote:

> It would seem that the new CHM file is internally very different to
> the older CHM file, even though I have only added one line of text to
> one topic. It would seem that, at a binary level, almost the entire
> file has had some change applied.
> 
> Is this how the CHM "compiler" works?

Right. The "C" in CHM stands for "Compressed", and like with other 
archives (zip...), a small change can result in a very different output 
file.

> There are changes applied right through the file, rather than just in
> one specific location?

As far as I can see, the help pages are compressed as a whole, not 
individually. But I'm not yet sure, still studying chm_lib...

DoDi

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