Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:45:47 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nissim Chudnoff <nchudnof AT mbhs DOT edu>
Cc: DJGPP Questions <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Funny stuf in .INF files
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On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Nissim Chudnoff wrote:

> OK.. I have been writing info files by hand, mainly because I don't like
> TeX very much,

That's an error" the sources of Info files aren't TeX, they are written 
in Texinfo.  Texinfo is syntactically and semantically *very* different 
from TeX.

> and one thing puzzles me: the numbers at the end, under
> "Tag Table". I found that I could just put pretty much any old number
> after each node, and it would usually work. What is the function of these
> numbers?

These are pointers into the file where the nodes begin.  They are used to 
speed up the search for the node.  Since the Info readers only use them 
as guidelines, searching a few KBytes around that position, you might 
think that they are useless.  However, if the Info file is split into 
several parts, and you change the tags so that it moves into another 
sub-file, Info will complain.