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From: desnoyer@apple.com (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Documentation files for GAWK
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Date: 5 Jul 89 16:59:26 GMT
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In article <3058@rtmvax.UUCP> mbeck@rtmvax.UUCP (Mark Becker) writes:
> In the recent posting of GAWK_DOC, the file GAWK-INF.O-1 has the 
following
> as the first line (minus the '<' and '>', of course) :
> > Info file gawk-info, produced by Makeinfo, -*- Text -*- from input    <
> > file gawk.texinfo.                                                    
> And the remainder of the file looks like a database for some kind of
> indexed menuing software.
> 
> Is there some program, running under MS-DOS (this is c.b.i.p. after
> all..), that takes files of this format and presents them in a readable
> fashion?

GnuEmacs will read this file. (this is a GNU distribution, after all.)
It won't run on a PC. If you receive this group on a UNIX machine, you
could see if you have access to GnuEmacs there.


                                      Peter Desnoyers
                                      Apple ATG
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