Re: [AVaRICE-user] [off topic] Using STK500 evaluation board with ATmega164p

[Ori I. <or...@he...>]

Thank you very much for your help.
I found the xchm and it work perfectly well (I already have the file from
Atmel rep. in Israel)
I will use the avr-chat list as you suggested.

-- 
Ori Idan


On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Joerg Wunsch <j...@ur...> wrote:

> (Btw., there's the list avr...@no... for that kind of talk.
> The mailman URL is
> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat )
>
> As Ori Idan wrote:
>
> > Atmel says it is supported but refuses to give documentation in a
> > readable format. They say the documentation is only available with
> > AVR Studio in CHM format (I have no idea what this format is).
>
> It's so-called "compressed HTML", a proprietary format from Microsoft
> which they've chosen to use for their internal help files.
>
> I've already opened a ticket with Atmel to provide the documentation
> and XML files outside of the AVR Studio package, in particular since
> the AVR Studio packages ships as an .exe file which can only extract
> under Windows (not even Wine).
>
> > Does anyone on this list has this documentation in a readable
> > format?
>
> CHM is less unreadable than you might imagine.  There's an opensource
> library called chmlib to parse it, and a viewer named xchm sitting on
> top of that library that can render it.  I'm going to send you the
> STK500.chm file in a private email.  Btw., you most likely don't
> really need that file if all you want is using your ATmega164P: this
> device is upwards compatible with the ATmega16 so all the settings
> that are mentioned in the printed manual for the ATmega16 will do
> fine.
>
> --
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>
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>



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