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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Jan Hubicka <hubicka AT ta DOT jcu DOT cz>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 10:09:37 +0000
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Texinfo 3.12 ported to DJGPP
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Jan Hubicka <hubicka AT ta DOT jcu DOT cz> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Fri, 29 May 1998, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> > 
> > > So I started to think
> > > about adding texinfo browser directly into distribution, but the default
> > > one is rather big. Is there some small such browser (say maximally 10KB)
> > > available?
> > 
> > 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....

More or less, but there are a LOT of small details. And what's even worst I saw 
info files that simply violates the format (the description of the format is in 
the texinfo.info file if I remmember well). I found it in one libc.info from 
Linux!
Additionally any info browser MUST support gzip compressed files. Debian's
standards says that all the .info files distributed must be compressed with 
gzip -9. It adds some complexity. Another problem are the splitted .info files, 
they are much more efficient (better speed and less memory needed), but again: 
it makes the things more complex.
To make an stable and really functional InfView I spend a lot of time (and 
code).

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