From: softbrek AT POOL DOT Informatik DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE
Subject: New release of TEXINFO 3.1 for DJGPP
To: djgpp-announce AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 12:47:34 +0200 (MET DST)


Hello,

I`ve just uploaded to omnigate.clarkson.edu in /pub/msdos/djgpp/pub :

texi31bn.zip  (dated 19. July 1993) 
texi31sr.zip  (dated 19. July 1993)

These two are a new version of my port of texinfo-3.1 to DJGPP. Please note
that the only visible difference is in the files` dates, not in their names,
as I haven`t changed the filenames from the first to this version of the
patch. 

The new version has the following new features: 

* First of all, I`ve done a new coding of the terminal-output-routines, so they
  don`t need the TERMCAP-library any more. I`ve switched over to direct screen-
  I/O (routines prototyped in <pc.h> and <gppconio.h> 

* I`ve also found time to make up a bit more of something like documentation for
  my own keymapping, so I hope users will now be able to understand it without
  need of guessing (;-) 

* I`ve included an example of a `dir'-file to be put in the info-directory as
  head of the info-tree

* For this `dir`, there now exists a better-editable `source-text`, `dir.txi`,
  which can be edited without taking care of CR/LF`s, FF`s and C-_`s (you`ll
  know what these are if you ever tried to edit `dir` without emacs.)

* while `info' itself still can`t read DOS-style-text-files (probably 
  impossible due to absolute file-positioning by TAGS), you can now create
  Unix-text-style info-files from DOS-style-texinfo-files (easily created by
  accident when editing the texinfos) using my version of `makeinfo`.

Some additional information:

The texi31bn.zip is an almost-binary-only distribution, it contains only a
`diffs` for people who like running patches themselves. It *doesn`t* contain
any of the texinfos enclosed in the original sources. If you want these, you'll
have to download texi31sr.zip as well (drop me a note, if you think I should
make up a texi31dc.zip containing the texinfos, or perhaps do it yourself 8-)

Hans-Bernhard Broeker, softbrek AT POOL DOT Informatik DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE
Smail: Templergraben 39a, 52062 Aachen, Germany