Craig Brooksby wrote:

> Anyone aware of an open-source Help File Generator?  Needed for
> authoring, not just reading / parsing.
> 
> The ITSS file format is used by Windows .chm help files, which
> superseded their .hlp file format.  It is a complied help format. 
> People go so far as to pubish magazines in .chm.
> 
> There is a wiki:  http://www/mshelpwiki.com  It lists A LOT of the
> extant tools (they tend to be in the $199 - $599 price range.  I'm
> looking for something costing $199 - $599 less than that) :-)

HTML Help (CHM) tools and Information
http://www.speakeasy.org/~russotto/chm/

CHM lib
http://66.93.236.84/~jedwin/projects/chmlib/

xCHM - CHM viewer for *nix
http://xchm.sourceforge.net/