Monday, April 9, 2007

cannot open e-book (*.chm file)


this was another headacke for me the other day... i downloaded couple e-books and everything looked fine, until when i copied those files to different PC. they simply could not be opened normally, instead i was getting this "cannot display the website" message. as if i was trying to browse web!? obviously i was the first to run in situation like this.
it turned out that problem was with the folder name, in which the chm files resided. it contained characted "#" and it was screwing up the xml parser or something...
unfortunately i've lost a link to the original page where i found solution/explanation for this stupid problem. it actually deseve to be linked, to earn higher search engine rank...
but here's different link -- with quite extensive explanation of possible chm problems

loosely related -- Can't open CHM file/ CHM topics are blank (kb 896054)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

People should read this.

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