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Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 15:41:19 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: timolmst AT cyberramp DOT net
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: COFF2EXE / GO32 problems
In-Reply-To: <4uqgsa$on7@newshost.cyberramp.net>
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On Tue, 13 Aug 1996 timolmst AT cyberramp DOT net wrote:

> My primary gripe about INFO is that it is TOTALY un-intuitive. The
> user interface is difficult to work with. There is no support for
> things like PGUP/PGDN keys, etc.

I don't understand how can you say this.  The cursor keys (Left, Right, 
Up and Down arrows) work as you'd expect; PgUp and PgDn keys also work as 
expected; TAB moves to the next menu item or hypertext link, Shift-TAB 
moves back, and RET goes to the link (also pretty much standard in any 
user interface I've seen).  Sure, there are a lot of other commands, but 
you don't have to use them if you don't want to remember them.

Here's a list of commands I use 99% of the time:

	PgUp/PgDn and the arrow keys
	TAB, Shift-TAB and RET to jump to menu items and hypertext links
	`s' - search for a string
	`l' - return to the last visited node

> I would be happy with a plain ASCII file that I could dump to the
> printer.

Info files are almost pure ASCII, so you can get that too.

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