From: luecking AT comp DOT uark DOT edu (Daniel Luecking) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Texinfo 3.12 ported to DJGPP Date: 2 Jun 1998 18:12:10 GMT Organization: The University of Arkansas Lines: 34 Message-ID: <6l1f9q$kd7@picayune.uark.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: comp.uark.edu To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Eli Zaretskii writes: >On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Jan Hubicka wrote: >> > I don't know about any such browser, and I doubt if it is possible, >> > even if you leave out many features. Browsing Info files is a >> > sirprisingly complex task, since the format leaves a lot of leeway. >> >> shame... please can you give me some example about such complex >> problem? I tought text is already formated and just contains links >> with :: and nodes.... [snipped] >But most of the complexity is in finding the node, *after* you have >gleaned its name. The Info file can be with or without a tag table, >it can be a single file or several subfiles, with another table >telling how to find which file holds the node you are looking for. It can even mix these things. I found (accidentally) that you can concatenate several info files into a single large file and delete the individual files, yet still info has no problem finding nodes, even though there is a table pointing to individual files. (Of course I have not exercised EVERY feature of info, so problems may yet occur.) > A >reference can point to another Info file, which then opens the Pandora >box of how do you look for Info files along INFOPATH, etc. etc. -- Dan Luecking Dept. of Mathematical Sciences luecking AT comp DOT uark DOT edu University of Arkansas http://comp.uark.edu/~luecking/ Fayetteville, AR 72101