From: Adam Chlipala <chilip AT ptd DOT net>
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Subject: GNU Info browser for Windows 95 and NT
Date: 28 May 1997 01:19:52 GMT
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    I have just completed the preliminary testing for WinInfo, a Win32
GNU Info browser, and am releasing it to the general public for
testing.  It can be downloaded from
http://www.dragonfire.net/~psi/aanigo/wininfo/ .  For those of you who
don't know, all of the DJGPP docs are, like many UNIX help files, in the
GNU Info format.  To briefly summarize the useful features of WinInfo,
it uses the familiar Windows web browser-type interface with blue
underlined links.  A history of the nodes you visit is kept, and you can
move quickly through it with Back and Forward buttons.  As in Windows
Help, Contents, Index, and Find searching options are available.  In
Contents, a hierarchical tree of topics is presented for your easy
navigation.  Index lists all topics alphabetically with a text box that
you can type words into and have the topic list jump to the closest
match.  Find lets you enter search text and have WinInfo return all of
the words found in the current document that contain that text.  You
then select which of these words you are looking for and see a listing
of the nodes they were found in along with the number of matches per
node.

    So, I urge you to try WinInfo if you use Windows 95 or NT, both to
help me out in the development of this useful program, and to possibly
increase the ease with which you browse the DJGPP help files.

        Thanks,
--     Adam Chlipala
        chilip AT ptd DOT net
http://www.dragonfire.net/~psi/aanigo/wininfo/