14 Jan
2022
14 Jan
'22
2:26 a.m.
On 1/13/22 1:16 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
It _does_ mention `makeinfo` in "the early
90s", so we may
assume sometime after 1984 and before 1992? `texinfo.el` from the Emacs
18.29 distribution has copyright dates from 1985, 1988, but it's hard to
make out the actual provenance of the source in those files (ie, was the
1985 date due to that file being copied from an earlier file created in 1985?).
Brian Fox wrote the original version of GNU `info' and the first standalone
C version of `makeinfo' in 1987, right after he started working for the
FSF. (makeinfo has since evolved into a perl script.)
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