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arguably it's been the last decade that documentation from MS suffered, specifically around the time that their software stopped shipping with CHM&co files and
by p_l 5y ago
arguably it's been the last decade that documentation from MS suffered, specifically around the time that their software stopped shipping with CHM&co files and started opening web pages.
But they are quite actively rebuilding from the switchover. I still miss CHM.
- throwaway2037 5y agoThe last sentence is a real gem. Zero trolling / Real question: What do you miss about CHM? My guess: It's a single package you can easily share and doesn't break once deployed (like a live website). :)
- p_l 5y agoIt was also fast, used quite minimal amount of resources even when there was a lot of diagrams included. Did I mention fast? Sure, generating an index could take a while - on PIO3/PIO4 drive with 486. N.B. The first time I've read Time Management for System Administrators, it was CHM file I just copied onto my free (won in competition) Windows Mobile PDA.