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-$Id: README,v 1.3 2004/04/11 17:56:45 karl Exp $
+$Id: README 5191 2013-02-23 00:11:18Z karl $
texinfo/info/README
- Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright 2002, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
notice and this notice are preserved.
-Info 2.0 is a complete rewrite of the original standalone Info I wrote in
-1987, the first program I wrote for rms. That program was something like
-my second Unix program ever, and my die-hard machine language coding habits
-tended to show through. I found the original Info hard to read and
-maintain, and thus decided to write this one.
+Info 2.0 is a complete rewrite of the original standalone Info that I
+(Brian Fox) wrote in 1987, the first program I wrote for rms. That
+program was something like my second Unix program ever, and my die-hard
+machine language coding habits tended to show through. I found the
+original Info hard to read and maintain, and thus decided to write this one.
The rewrite consists of about 12,000 lines of code written in about 12
days. I believe this version of Info to be in much better shape than the
@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ A full listing of the commands available in Info can be gotten by typing
`?' while within an Info window. This produces a node in a window which
can be viewed just like any Info node.
---Brian Fox <bfox@gnu.org>
+--Brian Fox