Date:	Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:50:57 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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	Maurice Lombardi <Maurice DOT Lombardi AT ujf-grenoble DOT fr>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: LFN problem with info ?
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, I wrote:

> The advantage of an anchor is that its Ref entry in the tag table points 
> *exactly* to the location you should go to.  In contrast, with a 
> cross-reference that references a node name, you only know to what node 
> to jump, and have then to implement some sort of heuristics to find a 
> better place than just the beginning of the node.

There's another difference between Ref and Node in the tag table: when 
you need to auto-complete node names, you should skip the Ref entries.

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