Download and install the latest version of Filestar.
Right click on one or more Chm file(s) on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar.
Type convert to tar.bz2 in the search box.
Press Convert.
Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i file.chm -c "convert to tar.bz2" (how).
Let your AI agent convert CHM to TAR.BZ2
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can do this on your computer with Filestar. Your files stay on your machine.
Install Filestar and add it to your agents:
npm install -g filestar
filestarcli agent install
Then ask your agent:
“Convert the CHM files in my Downloads folder to TAR.BZ2”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i file.chm -c "convert to tar.bz2"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent convert CHM to TAR.BZ2?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i file.chm -c "convert to tar.bz2" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
Comprises of texts, hyperlinks, and images that make up help documentation saved in HTML format. They provide help solutions that can be viewed on web browsers.
It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
