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Re: Books to teach myself 'programming infrastructure'



On 23-Oct-00, 16:55 (CDT), Philip Brown <phil@bolthole.com> wrote: 
> [ Hamish Moffatt writes ]
> > 
> > I prefer HTML to info, but unfortunately it isn't easy to search
> > a group of HTML documents in the same directory with current
> > browsers. info does have an advantage there.
> > 
> 
> Uh, it's called "grep"  ;-)
> 
> That's if you are "browsing" a filesystem.
> If you are browsing through a webserver, then hopefully any sane
> webadmin will have already set up a site search-engine.

And which search-engine provides incremental, ordered (i.e. "next" and
"previous") searching?

The problems with info have much to do with the info program, and not
much to do with the format.

Steve

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