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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:39:24 +0000
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Subject: Re: Info - problem reading about istream
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ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) wrote

First sorry to enter in this thread at this time.

> Uhm... the colon with special meaning always seems to be the last; 

There are an explanation in the texinfo docs.

> or else
> it is two colons together, and they are the last colons.
> 
> Can't that be used to distinguish which?

The format used by info is just shit, and I saw UNIX files with huge violations 
to the standard. I think it must be redesigned, but isn't our work. 
I don't understand why in the hell the format uses markers to separate nodes 
(ASCII 31) but no to separate links (the methode used is totally confusing).

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