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Re: Browsers for online documentation

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From: Tom Horsley
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 11:20
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I recently posted a tool that (as near as I can tell) is exactly what you
want.  It is ivinfo in the comp.sources.misc news group. The first part was
Volume 20, Issue 26 and it is 4 parts (through Issue 29).

The only possibly drawback is the fact that it is written in C++ and uses
InterViews 2.6 to do the display (it is not trivially portable to InterViews
3.0). If you have g++ and InterViews 2.6, it should be pretty easy to port,
otherwise you may have to port them first.

The core of the tool is a C++ class used to access info files. It is pretty
much independent of the rest of the tool and could be used to build other
kinds of info access systems.

You may also need to replace the regular expression matching I used in the
search routines with one of the PD regexp packages since I used one of the
library regexp routines that is not always available on every U**x box.
(All you need is the ability to search for a regexp in a large buffer
and determine where the match ends).
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From: tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley)
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Subject: Re: Browsers for online documentation
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