Date:	Tue, 22 Mar 1994 12:56:59 -0500
From:	davis AT amy DOT tch DOT harvard DOT edu ("John E. Davis")
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp
Subject:	RE: Info port to DJGPP
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

>As far as I know, fixing the Info behavior with respect to MSDOS
>newline behavior shouldn't hurt anything, *except* that it will with
>about 50% certainty break any multiple file info that is edited with
>an MSDOS editor (unfortunately, this include DEmacs).  The reason is
>that the tag-finding algorithm is very sensitive to location in the
>directory file, as well as in other files.  Addition of a couple of
>dozen '\r' characters in the file will definitely be enough to throw
>the DEmacs reader off, and possibly other info readers as well.  So

The emacs-like editor JED should not have this problem with the tags being
off.  JED simply looks at the info tags table as a hint for what file to
look into for the node.

JED compiles under DJGPP as well as MSDOS.  It is quite small in comparison
to other *EMACS editors and the last time I checked, it was even smaller than
the standalone info reader from GNU!!  So at the very least, JED would make
an alternative to the info reader. Since it is customizable in a C-like
language called S-lang, this should be pretty easy.  Finally, I do not
recall but JED can read compressed info files under Unix and OS/2.

JED *only* available from amy.tch.harvard.edu in pub/jed.  Archie will show
old versions of JED elsewhere but they are very old.

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