| 1 | $Id: README,v 1.3 2004/04/11 17:56:45 karl Exp $
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| 2 | texinfo/info/README
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| 4 | Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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| 6 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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| 7 | are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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| 8 | notice and this notice are preserved.
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| 9 |
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| 10 | Info 2.0 is a complete rewrite of the original standalone Info I wrote in
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| 11 | 1987, the first program I wrote for rms. That program was something like
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| 12 | my second Unix program ever, and my die-hard machine language coding habits
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| 13 | tended to show through. I found the original Info hard to read and
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| 14 | maintain, and thus decided to write this one.
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| 15 |
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| 16 | The rewrite consists of about 12,000 lines of code written in about 12
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| 17 | days. I believe this version of Info to be in much better shape than the
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| 18 | original Info.
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| 20 | Info 2.0 is substantially different from its original standalone
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| 21 | predecessor. It appears almost identical to the GNU Emacs version, but has
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| 22 | the advantages of smaller size, ease of portability, and a built in library
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| 23 | which can be used in other programs (to get or display documentation from
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| 24 | Info files, for example).
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| 25 |
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| 26 | A full listing of the commands available in Info can be gotten by typing
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| 27 | `?' while within an Info window. This produces a node in a window which
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| 28 | can be viewed just like any Info node.
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| 30 | --Brian Fox <bfox@gnu.org>
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