Date: Fri, 25 Jun 93 10:27:10 CDT
From: "Jeremy Mathers" <pynq AT midway DOT uchicago DOT edu>
To: rwp AT hprwp DOT fc DOT hp DOT com
Subject: Re:  info files only in emacs (not!)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu


>There is a standalone info reader available for UNIX.  While I don't
>think anyone has done it yet it should be possible to port it to dos
>using gcc and run the info system without emacs.  It should be more
>memory efficient on small machines that way too.

Getting Info to run under standard DOS is tricky.  I think there have
been several "half-ports", but they all seem to suffer from variouis
limitations (due, of course, to limited memory).

Get OS/2, me boys, and all ye problems will be solved!  There is a very
nice OS/2 port of gnuinfo, as well as the ability to convert Info files
into INF documents, which can be viewed with IPF (VIEW.EXE).

Definitely the way to go...