diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'setedit/www-site/infview.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | setedit/www-site/infview.html | 165 |
1 files changed, 165 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/setedit/www-site/infview.html b/setedit/www-site/infview.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f94c25 --- /dev/null +++ b/setedit/www-site/infview.html @@ -0,0 +1,165 @@ +<html> +<head> + <title>InfView, an info files viewer</title> + <meta name="description" content="InfView, an info files viewer, good replacement for info"> + <meta name="keywords" content="InfView, info, texinfo, viewer, SETEdit, setedit, rhide, editor, linux, DOS, console, tui, djgpp, library, download, SET, Salvador, Eduardo, Tropea"> + <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> + <meta name="distribution" content="global"> + <meta name="Author" content="Salvador E. Tropea, set@users.sf.net"> +</head> +<BODY BGCOLOR="#A0D0FF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#FF0000" VLINK="#000000"> + +<p><center> +<table> +<tr> +<td><strong><h1>InfView</h1></strong></td> +<td align=right><A href="http://sourceforge.net"> + <IMG valign=center src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=32835" + width="88" height="31" border="0" alt="SourceForge Logo"></A></td> +</tr> +</table> +</center></p> + +I provide a menu because some sections are large and perhaps you are not +interested in reading all: +<ul> +<li> <a href="#intro">Introduction</a> +<li> <a href="#features">Features</a> +<li> <a href="#license">License</a> +<li> <a href="#download">Download</a> +<li> <a href="#contributing">Contributing</a> +<li> <a href="readmeinf.html" target="_top">Readme first</a> +</ul> + +<a name="intro"></a> +InfView is an easy to use info viwer. The command line have the most relevant +options provided by info and the user interface is much more intuitive. It +makes InfView a good replacement for the info-stantalone program. The main +objetive of InfView is to give to the user a friendly and easy to learn tool +to browse the documentation found in info format. This format is used by the +FSF for all the major tools and of course is used by djgpp.<p> +The old info program was designed as a flexible UNIX tool so it have some +features you won't find in InfView, as an example: InfView doesn't have +options to write a documentation chapter to the standard output so you can +capture it and display in other program. InfView was designed as an +interactive tool instead.<p> +InfView uses overlapping windows (real windows, not "screens"), fully +supports mouse, have pull-down menues and pop-up windows, etc. As the name +says the emphasis is in the visual component.<p> +Unless graphical implementations the program is relative small and quite +fast (263Kb installation for the first release, I know about one Win32 +implementation that needs over 5Mb and eats more than 5Mb of memory thanks to +the run time of some visual script language from Redmond that I won't name +here).<p> +I started to develop InfView in 1996 to add help to +<a href="http://www.rhide.com/" target="_top">RHIDE</a>. It was a +big step for RHIDE. My next contribution was a text editor. Currently the +editor is also distributed as an standalone program and of course have InfView +as help system. I created a standalone InfView because many users asked for +it. The advantages of an standalone program are: + +<ul> + <li> Smaller memory requirements. + <li> Specialized command line. + <li> Specialized menues. + <li> Specialized features (example: InfView windows are tileable). +</ul> + +<a name="features"></a> +The main features of InfView are: + +<ul> + <li> Free cursor movement with the keyboard arrows, page-up, etc. + <li> Mouse support. + <li> Highlighted cross references. + <li> Hide of the `*Note' and other confusing things of the info format. + <li> Previous, Next and Up node support. + <li> History support. + <li> Incremental search just typing the first letters of the cross reference. + <li> The same for the whole nodes list. + <li> Support for compressed info files. + <li> Search in the current node, the whole file or all the files. + <li> Bookmarks. + <li> History of the last 40 nodes visited. + <li> Dialog to browse the files on disk. + <li> info like command line for people already acustomed to info. + <li> Many overlapping windows containing different info files can be opened at the same time. Only limited by available memory. + <li> and more +</ul> + +<a name="license"></a> +<table width=100% cellspacing=0> +<tr BGCOLOR="#000080"><th><Font Color="#FFFFFF">LICENSE</th></tr> +<tr BGCOLOR="#80A0FF"><td> +InfView is distributed under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" target="_top">GPL</a> +license. It basically means the code is free and you don't need to pay for it +and you are free to change it, but any derived work will become GPL too. Most +of the software available for Linux is distributed under these terms. This +license protects my rights over the code (I hold the copyright) and protects +the users ensuring they are free to use the code. If you plan to use parts or +the whole code of InfView be sure you read the GPL license carefully.<br> +Note that GPL implies a disclaimer of guaranty, so if you must use it in an +enterprise where you need to be able to sue software's authors in case of +direct or indirect problems created by it just forget about InfView. By +the way, I don't know about even one big company (Microsoft included) that doesn't +included a disclaim of guaranty in your license.<br> +Even when you don't need to pay for InfView I accept any kind of help ;-). +The best way to help me is contributing in one of the ways I mention +<a href="#help">here</a>.<br> +</td></tr></table><p> + +<a name="download"></a> +<table width=100% cellspacing=0> +<tr BGCOLOR="#000080"><th colspan=4><Font Color="#FFFFFF">DOWNLOAD<br> +Important: check <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/setedit/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/setedit/</a> +for the last news and beta releases.</th></tr> +<tr BGCOLOR="#80A0FF"><th colspan=2>DOS v0.2.8</th><th colspan=2>Linux v0.2.8</th></tr> +<tr BGCOLOR="#80A0FF"> +<td><Center><a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/setedit/inf028b.zip">Binaries</a></td> +<td><Center><a href="http://setedit.sourceforge.net/">Sources</a></td> +<td><Center><a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/setedit/infview_0.2.8-0.5.0-1_i386.deb">Debian Woody</a></td> +<td><Center><a href="http://setedit.sourceforge.net/">Sources</a></td> +</tr> +<tr BGCOLOR="#80A0FF"> +<td colspan=4>The sources are the same as the sources for the editor so the +links points to the editor's page. Get the last snap shot available.<br> +To compile InfView you'll also need the +<a href="http://tvision.sf.net/" target="_top">Turbo Vision</a> library.</td></tr> +</table> +<p> + +<a name="contributing"></a> +<table width=100% cellspacing=0> +<tr BGCOLOR="#000080"><th colspan=4><Font Color="#FFFFFF">CONTRIBUTING</th></tr> +<tr BGCOLOR="#80A0FF"><td> +There are a lot of ways you can contribute, here are some of them:<p> + +<ul> +<li> Giving useful bug reports, it means providing a good description of the + bug and how to reproduce it. +<li> Writing examples of use or <i>mini-howto</i>s. I'll be glad to include + them with InfView. +<li> Helping with the web pages. +<li> Helping with the distribution, e.g. if you have an internet host or you + can help with the announcements and uploads. +<li> Packaging InfView. +<li> Porting the code to other platforms. Currently + <a href="mailto:zager@post.comstar.ru">Dim Zegebart</a> is helping with the + Alpha/Linux platform. +<li> Helping with the internationalization. Even when my language is spanish + InfView have documentation and messages only in english, it means I + don't even have time to keep upto date the support for my own language. +<li> Making additions to the code. +<li> Sending a post card from your city or some of the things I collect + (train tickets, cigarette envelopes and boxes, stamps, old money and + coins) you'll help to keep my interest in the project. +<li> Of course I'll accept money from you or any hardware, but I know that's + very hard for most people, specially because I'm in Argentina. +</ul> +</td></tr></table><p> + +<i>Copyright © 1999-2003 by Salvador E. Tropea, e-mail: <a href="mailto:set@users.sf.net">set@users.sf.net</a>.</i><br> +<p><hr><p> +<Font Size=-1>Last update: Tue Apr 01 17:49:57 (GMT) 2003</Font> +</body> +</html> |