AVR-Chat

John Samperi wrote:
> At 09:42 AM 19/07/2007, you wrote:
>>     I cannot access AVRStudio Help files, as the wonderful people at
>> Atmel programmed it to require IE to be installed on the system for the
>> help files to work, and I WILL NOT install that misbegotten piece of
>> CRAP on my system.
> 
> Well, my friend, you will then understand if no one will go out of
> their way to help you in the future as most of your problems seem
> to be self inflicted :-(
> 
> I have only used the ZIF socket on my Dragon once to do HVPP, it
> was EXTREMELY easy to wire up the socket according to the pictures
> and instructions on the help file. I have also ordered several bunches
> of patch cables from ERE in case I need to use the ZIF socket again,
> very unlikely but possible, so I'm well armed.
> 
> Surely there must be a non Microsoft program that will let you open
> the CHM files if you don't want IE.

I ditched Windoze garbage years ago. You can view chm files in linux:

   http://xchm.sourceforge.net/
   http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/chmdeco

You can even run IE6 on wine and not have the insecurity problems
of Windoze:

   http://patrick.spacesurfer.com/ie_wine_install.html