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Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 17:24:01 GMT
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From: fieldhouse AT logica DOT com (Dirk Fieldhouse)
Subject: re: Suggestion: use tkinfo as info reader
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On Fri, 3 Sep 1999 02:14:08 +0200 (MET DST), Axel Boldt <axel AT uni-paderborn DOT de> wrote: 

>I saw in the FAQ that you currently don't distribute man or info
>readers. I maintain tkinfo, a rather intuitive point-and-click info
>reader which uses tcl/tk and runs on Win95/98/nt. Of course, tcl/tk
>needs to be installed first, but if you ever intend to provide a
>documentation package, maybe tkinfo could be used. License is BSD.
>Home page is http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/tkinfo/

Yes, great application. It worked out of the box for me (98-02-12 version 2.4), though I reduced the default font sizes - which may however be OK for 1280x1024 and up, and has been for the last 18 months. Much educational value can follow from the command 

tkinfo gcc &

The only feature missing for me is copy-to-clipboard (and presumably select-text would be nice). I'm not sure how those can be done in a platform-independent manner with tcl/tk, but then all I know about tcl/tk comes from trying to make gdbtcl work better!

/df

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