Merging HTML help files

Hello
I am trying to improve a compiled html help (.chm) file. The only stuff I seem to find requires the source files and I only have the chm file. Can this be done or should I forget the whole idea?
JM

Hello,
Without the original compiler and project files it is not possible. I have been writing all types of help files mostly in CHM, without the project file and the compiler you simple can not. The actual compiler is critical as third party compilers will inject
their own stuff into project files that the native compiler from Microsoft will not understand.
Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help, this will help others who are looking for solutions to the same or similar problem.

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