How to export text from a .chm file?

[R P Herrold]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, joe at actionline.com wrote:

> How can I export the text from a .chm file?
>
> In particular when it is broken into multiple "chapters"?

The FOSS project 'calibre' handles this

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26980

through internediate conversions to more portible formats. 
calibre builds and installs trivially under CentOS 5

-- Russ herrold