1$Id: README,v 1.1.1.5 2006/07/17 16:03:41 espie Exp $ 2texinfo/info/README 3 4 Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 5 6 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, 7 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright 8 notice and this notice are preserved. 9 10Info 2.0 is a complete rewrite of the original standalone Info I wrote in 111987, the first program I wrote for rms. That program was something like 12my second Unix program ever, and my die-hard machine language coding habits 13tended to show through. I found the original Info hard to read and 14maintain, and thus decided to write this one. 15 16The rewrite consists of about 12,000 lines of code written in about 12 17days. I believe this version of Info to be in much better shape than the 18original Info. 19 20Info 2.0 is substantially different from its original standalone 21predecessor. It appears almost identical to the GNU Emacs version, but has 22the advantages of smaller size, ease of portability, and a built in library 23which can be used in other programs (to get or display documentation from 24Info files, for example). 25 26A full listing of the commands available in Info can be gotten by typing 27`?' while within an Info window. This produces a node in a window which 28can be viewed just like any Info node. 29 30--Brian Fox <bfox@gnu.org> 31