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From: Axel Boldt <boldt@math.ucsb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: TkInfo 1.5, a browser for info files
Date: 19 Jun 1997 20:45:56 -0700
Organization: Univ of California at Santa Barbara, Dept of Mathematics
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Hi,

tkInfo is a graphical browser for documentation in the GNU info
format. It requires Tcl7.4 and Tk4.0 or newer and runs on Unix/X,
MacOS and Windows. It's free under the BSD license. You can fetch
version 1.5 from

          http://www.math.ucsb.edu/~boldt/tkinfo/

New in version 1.4:
   - history mechanim
   - full search through whole info file
   - balloon help for buttons
   - hitting space repeatedly walks through info file in logical order
   - right-click brings up little menu with useful commands
   - right-click on link opens a "redirect window"; future
     right-clicks on a link send link's node text to that window.
     
New in version 1.5:
   - backwards search
   - can cycle through links with Tab like lynx
   - "last" command remembers position and last selected link of last
     info node.
   - usage tips added
   - Lengthy searches can be interrupted with Ctrl-G
   - Previous inputs in search and goto entry box can be recalled with
     Cursor-Up.


Best regards,
  Axel Boldt

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 Axel Boldt  *  boldt@math.ucsb.edu  *  http://www.math.ucsb.edu/%7Eboldt/