readme.1st for InfView

                                InfView v0.2.8
                                    by SET

      That's the official distribution of InfView v0.2.8
      The info viewer is Copyrighted by Salvador Eduardo Tropea. (c) 1996-2002
    and distributed under the GPL license.
      The info viewer is free and you don't need to pay for it. Any kind of
    donations are accepted ;-).

    INDEX:

    1.  INTRODUCTION
    2.  IMPORTANT (modifications and fixes in this release and the previous)
    3.  REQUIREMENTS
    4.  INSTALL
    5.  LEGAL ISSUE
    7.  DOWNLOAD
    8.  MAILING LIST
    9.  DONATIONS

    1. INTRODUCTION

      InfView is a good replacement for the info-stantalone program. The main
    objetive of InfView is to give to the user a friendly and easy to learn tool
    to browse the documentation found in info format. This format is used by the
    FSF for all the major tools and of course is used by djgpp.
      The old info program was designed as a flexible UNIX tool so it have some
    features you won't find in InfView, as an example: InfView doesn't have
    options to write a documentation chapter to the standard output so you can
    capture it and display in other program. InfView was designed as an
    interactive tool instead.
      InfView uses overlapping windows (real windows, not "screens"), fully
    supports mouse, have pull-down menues and pop-up windows, etc. As the name
    says the emphasis is in the visual component.
      Unless graphical implementations the program is relative small and quite
    fast (263Kb installation for the first release, I know about one Win32
    implementation that needs over 5Mb and eats more than 5Mb of memory thanks to
    the run time of some visual script language from Redmond that I won't name
    here).
      The main features of InfView are:

       * Free cursor movement with the keyboard arrows, page-up, etc.
       * Mouse support.
       * Highlighted cross references.
       * Hide of the `*Note' and other confusing things of the info format.
       * Previous, Next and Up node support.
       * History support.
       * Incremental search just typing the first letters of the cross
         reference.
       * The same for the whole nodes list.
       * Support for compressed info files.
       * Search in the current node, the whole file or all the files.
       * Bookmarks.
       * History of the last 40 nodes visited.
       * Dialog to browse the files on disk.
       * and more

    2. IMPORTANT:

      If you are a user of SETEdit you'll find this distribution very familiar
    and in fact follows the same gidelines used in the editor's distribution.
      Changes since 0.2.6 release:

    Additions:
      The last important addition was the man pages viewer.
      Now is possible to use File|Open Infview if no window is already opened.
      Added a configuration dialog to set the code page used by the OS screen.
      Internationalization, currently only spanish is fully soported.

    Fixes:
      Now all options not available when no window is opened are grayed.
      The "Shell" menu option wasn't functional.

    3. REQUIREMENTS:

    * PC 386 compatible or superior computer.
    * 2 Mb of memory or more.
    * 2.4 Mb of free disk during installation and about 1.5 Mb once installed.
    * DOS version 5.0 or posterior or any compatible OS (Win '95, Win 3.1, OS/2,
    MS-DOS, etc.). The NT platform isn't fully supported, I don't have NT, if you
    need support for NT send me a licensed copy of NT ;-). I did my best to
    support it, but as I don't have one at home I can't do more.
    * Linux with ELF support for the Linux version. For console use you need gpm
    1.13, newer versions are incompatible.
    * A VGA card.
    * DJGPP users normally have it.

    4. INSTALL:

    A) Installing in DOS for djgpp users:
       Uncompress the file over your djgpp installation in the same way you did
       with the rest of packages.

    C) Installing in Linux:
    1) Uncompress the files in /tmp and run ./INSTALL_LINUX. If you want to setup
       the destination directory read the INSTALL_LINUX script.
       Also: the script contains useful information about access rights needed
       to run infview.
    2) Be sure the directory where infview's binary file is located is included
       in your PATH environment variable.

    5. LEGAL ISSUE:

      InfView is free software.  It may be used or distributed in any manner
    you wish, as long as you do not violate the GPL license.  You can't remove
    any copyrigth included in the files and you can't distribute it without any
    of the original files. You will also distribute the sources if you distribute
    the binaries. The GPL license is included in the package so read it before
    distributing infview.

      InfView comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; excluding any and all implied
    warranties, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
    particular purpose.  There is no warranty or representation, either express
    or implied, with respect to this program, its quality, performance,
    merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.  The entire risk
    of using this program is with you.  There will be no liability for special,
    incidental, or consequential damages arising out of or resulting from the use
    or modification of this program.

    6. WHERE ARE THE SOURCES?

      Even when I'm distributing the standalone InfView I don't the time,
    bandwidth, motivation, etc. to distribute yet another huge package of
    sources. For this reason the sources are only available in the editor's
    package (SETEdit). So download the editor's source. 90% of the code is shared
    with the editor.

    7. DOWNLOAD:

     All the OSs:
     Stable and beta releases, mailing list, cvs, etc.:
     http://setedit.sourceforge.net/

     DOS: (only stable releases)
     Any Simtelnet mirror, example:
     ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/inf*.zip

     Linux:
     The Linux tarballs can be found in Source Forge.

     Debian GNU/Linux: (only stable releases)
     An experimental repository is maintained by Ivan in Source Forge.
     To access the repository, just add the following line to your
    /etc/apt/sources.list:

    deb http://setedit.sourceforge.net/debian unstable main

     That's for unstable branch of Debian (currently Sid) for the stable branch
    use:

    deb http://setedit.sourceforge.net/debian stable main

     Note that Ivan will upload stable editor releases. For betas look in the
    Source Forge pages.

    8. MAILING LIST

     The editor's list is more than suitable to discuse things related to the
    InfView program because it is part of the editor:
     To subscribe visit:
     http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/setedit-users
     I moved the old list at topica to Source Forge.

    9. DONATIONS:

      If you really like the info viewer you can send me anything as feedback.
      If you want to send money I'll be happy, but if you don't have it and
    want to show your gratitude you can send me a postal card from your city
    or some of the things I collect (train tickets, cigarette envelopes and
    boxes, stamps, old money and coins).
      For more information about how to contact me see the select "Introduction"
    chapter and then select "About the author" in the help on help.

    SET