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<p>add any new features to HTML Help.</p>

<p><big>File format</big></p>
<p>Help is delivered as a binary file with the <code>.chm</code> extension. It contains a set of HTML files, a <a href="page.php?w=hyperlink">hyperlink</a>ed table of contents, and an index file. The file format has been reverse-engineered and documentation of it is freely available.</p>

<p>The file starts with bytes "ITSF" (in <a href="page.php?w=ASCII">ASCII</a>), for "Info-Tech Storage Format", which is the internal name given by Microsoft to the generic storage file format used</p><p>
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