---
name: "archmage"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "archmage"
version: "1:0.4.2.1-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/archmage"
---

# archmage(1)

CHM(Compiled HTML) Decompressor.

## NAME

archmage - CHM(Compiled HTML) Decompressor.

## SYNOPSIS

**archmage** *chmfile directory*\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **archmage** command.  This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**arCHMage** is an extensible reader and decompiler for files in the CHM format. This is the format used by Microsoft HTML Help, and is also known as Compiled HTML. arCHMage is based on python-chm binding to  chmlib from GnoCHM project.

## USAGE

Extract .chm to directory (directory will be created):

	archmage \<chmfile\> \<directory\>

## SEE ALSO

arCHMage Home Page: http://archmage.sf.net

## AUTHOR

arCHMage was written by Eugeny Korekin \<az@ftc.ru\>

This manual page was written by Basil Shubin \<bashu@users.sourceforge.net\>,  for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).