Message-Id: <199907261712.NAA21601@delorie.com> Sender: root AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:23:13 -0300 From: salvador Organization: INTI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i686) X-Accept-Language: es-AR, en, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: [Announce] InfView (info files viewer) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hi All: I'm releasing InfView v0.2.4: * What's InfView? An info files viewer. Most of the FSF documentation is in this format. InfView can be used as a replacement for info (info-standalone from the FSF's texinfo package). * What advantage have over info? Much better user interface (windows, menues, mouse, dialogs, etc.) Can remmeber the files opened, position of windows, etc. across sessions. * Isn't it the same stuff found in SETEdit and RHIDE? Yeap, but as an standalone program so: 1) Is smaller. 2) Starts faster. 3) Have a command line compatible with info. 4) Have all the commands available from the menu so the learning curve is even better. * I'm acustomed to info, do you think I can use InfView? Most probably yes, most commands are similar. Examples: 1) "infview libc alpha print" will show the help for printf as you'll get using "info libc alpha print". 2) Ctrl+u, Ctrl+n, Ctrl+p, etc. will go to the upper, next, previous, etc. nodes as you get pressing u, n, p, etc. in info (I use simple letters for incremental search). * What's the status of this release? Beta, just because is the first time I release the standalone version, but InfView started in 1996 and was used for all the releases of RHIDE since Beta 5 (aprox. it was before 1.0) and all the releases of setedit. I'm think the program is quite stable. * Why v0.2.x, is it an incomplete program? Not compared with info or any info viewer, but yes compared with the info viewer I think we could have if people joins efforts. * Where can I get the program? http://setsoft.webjump.com/infview.html I'll upload the DOS version to DJ's server (and hence simtelnet) in the future. * Is that free? Of course, is GPL. Sources are available downloading the SETEdit sources (http://setsoft.webjump.com/setedit.html) and the last snap-shot patches (I added the needed files and projects after releasing v0.4.29 of the editor). Hope you like it, SET -- Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET). (Electronics Engineer) Visit my home page: http://welcome.to/SetSoft or http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/ Alternative e-mail: set-soft AT usa DOT net set AT computer DOT org set AT ieee DOT org set-soft AT bigfoot DOT com Address: Curapaligue 2124, Caseros, 3 de Febrero Buenos Aires, (1678), ARGENTINA Phone: +(5411) 4759 0013