Link to topic in CHM file

Hello, all
The problem: I need to link to a specific topic within a CHM
file, via URL, rather than directly to the CHM file itself and I am
having no luck finding a means to do so. I have tried the suggested
methods from the support/web but not come up with functional code.
Help?
Thanks,
V

Unfortunately, that isn't working, either.
I have tried the following:
<a href="ms-its:filename.chm::/topic.htm></a>
For this, I receive "Page could not be displayed."
<a href="pathname\filename.chm"></a>
This tries to download the file to the machine.
Any use that I've tried with a ::/filename.htm on the end
tends to give me page could not be displayed.
Thanks for anythoughts!
V

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