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Re: Looking for texinfo reader

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From: Michael Schmidt
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 1990 10:24
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david> FSF has a termcap-based info reader called "info.c", written by Brian
david> Fox (author of bash), but we haven't released it yet, I think because
david> it should use curses instead of raw termcap so parts of it need to be
david> rewritten. 


"manavendra> I read recently in this newsgroup about a program called
"manavendra> xinfo, which is supposed to be an X Windows program that
"manavendra> allows a user to browse through info files.  Does such a
"manavendra> program really exist, or am I imagining things?

There is an X11 based info tree browser. comp.sources.x: v06i093 by
jkh@meepmeep.pcs.com. It works just fine here.
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      Michael Schmidt, FB 17, Uni-GH Paderborn, Warburgerstr. 100,
                     D-4790 Paderborn, West Germany
Mail:   michael@pbinfo.UUCP         or          michael@uni-paderborn.de
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From: michael@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Schmidt)
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Subject: Re: Looking for texinfo reader
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