For a long time, the MySQL Documentation Team has been providing
CHM files for most MySQL documentation we publish. Like many
other formats, CHM-format docs can be downloaded from http://dev.mysql.com/doc. CHM (Compiled HTML
Help) has been the de facto standard help file format on
Windows since 1997, but the technology behind it is outdated and
has all kinds of quirks. The successor format introduced with
Windows Vista is AP Help, but it hasn't taken off in
practice so far. So, with CHM being outdated and AP Help spread
anything but widely, lots of vendors have started providing
documentation on Windows in PDF or HTML format.
Building CHM-format documentation is a challenge of its own. I'll
not go into details here, so let me just state that it requires a
dedicated Windows box (or VM), and while it can be automated
using Power Shell commands, there's no way to find …
For a long time, the MySQL Documentation Team has been providing
CHM files for most MySQL documentation we publish. Like many
other formats, CHM-format docs can be downloaded from http://dev.mysql.com/doc. CHM (Compiled HTML
Help) has been the de facto standard help file format on
Windows since 1997, but the technology behind it is outdated and
has all kinds of quirks. The successor format introduced with
Windows Vista is AP Help, but it hasn't taken off in
practice so far. So, with CHM being outdated and AP Help spread
anything but widely, lots of vendors have started providing
documentation on Windows in PDF or HTML format.
Building CHM-format documentation is a challenge of its own. I'll
not go into details here, so let me just state that it requires a
dedicated Windows box (or VM), and while it can be automated
using Power Shell commands, there's no way to find …
For a long time, the MySQL Documentation Team has been providing
CHM files for most MySQL documentation we publish. Like many
other formats, CHM-format docs can be downloaded from http://dev.mysql.com/doc. CHM (Compiled HTML
Help) has been the de facto standard help file format on
Windows since 1997, but the technology behind it is outdated and
has all kinds of quirks. The successor format introduced with
Windows Vista is AP Help, but it hasn't taken off in
practice so far. So, with CHM being outdated and AP Help spread
anything but widely, lots of vendors have started providing
documentation on Windows in PDF or HTML format.
Building CHM-format documentation is a challenge of its own. I'll
not go into details here, so let me just state that it requires a
dedicated Windows box (or VM), and while it can be automated
using Power Shell commands, there's no way to find …