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In article <9202260323.AA05594@wubios> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:

> I would like for individual users to be able to "publish" texinfo
> documents, making them available on their host.  Other users can
> browse these documents as if they were local.  This would require a
> certain amount on network smarts to be transparent.  Perhaps a
> standard subdirectory of each nodes anonymous ftp tree could be used,
> e.g. ~ftp/texinfo.  A local texinfo application should be able to
> fetch the Index of each document separately, so that it can provide
> Menus without transmitting the entire document.

First of all, as you probably know, you want people to browse online the
Info versions of documents.  Second, you can do most of this today with
some GNU Emacs add-on packages, all of which are available from standard
archive sources.  Ange-ftp allows you to do ftp retrieval of files into
buffers just as you do with local files.  Hyperbole (V3.0P just released
on "/wilma.cs.brown.edu:pub/hyperbole") allows you to click on Info
references to follow them.  It also lets you embed such references in
any file you like.  With ange-ftp, you can click on ftp file names, like
the one above, within Info node name references to jump to them.  Large
Info files are split into subfiles by the makeinfo program, so you only
retrieve small portions anyway when you operate on remote files.  No
changes in Texinfo or Info programs are necessary for any of this.

Bob
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