On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 at 06:02, Andy Sy wrote: > Does anyone know if such a thing exists? Afaik, MS has not published a > file-level spec for .CHM, instead you have to access a .CHM file via COM > (grrrr...!)
You see, that's what you get with that !@#%! "The One OS" "Windows XP Rocks" sh*t. And you were talking about standards and Linux having too many parallel standards, eh? Bah! With Microsoft's "standards", the rest of the world either has to pay, or figure things out by reverse engineering using up precious developer time. A great example: the SMB protocol. Ask any Samba developer and they'll tell you the same thing. It's a blasted pain in the neck dealing with, closed source and all. Not to mention the fact that with each new release of Windows, they obsolete some chunk of the previous "standard". And now this CHM that you need to view via COM. Maybe you, oh great appreciator of Microsoft's products, can hack your way through a CHM viewer for Linux? You never know, Microsoft might just get you for violation of the DMCA. And you can guess which list will be laughing their asses of. ;> > A lot of very nice docs now come out in .CHM format (one of the few > things MS has done right) and it would be great if one could use them > under Linux. A lot of very nice documents? Microsoft has done it right? If it did it right why didn't it make it an open standard? They're freaking documents after all, not program source code! But then this just shows us how true that "The One OS" paraphrase is. You can guess who the real-life Sauron is. Sheesh. With all this stuff from you Andy, I'm beginning to wonder if you actually understand wha the letters in PLUG stand for. That L, the second character, or in languages like C the first element, stands for Linux. Not Microsoft or Windows or XP, none of which have any L's in them. Can we drop all this Microsoft sh*t and focus on enjoying the freedom that Linux and the rest of the Open Source software gives us? I like what Orly said. It's really not which OS is better, really. We're a Linux Users' Group. Why don't we just go on chattering about the operating system we've all grown to love? And no, I am NOT dodging your "valid points". I'm just pointing out that this is a mailing list for users and developers of the Linux Operating System. FUD or not FUD, we love the OS for one reason or another. I don't think your attempts to point out the validity of Microsoft's products are being done in the right alley. Valid as they may be, do them somewhere else. You are wasting our time. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
