[COFF] Scribe (Typesetting System) and Unix

[Chet Ramey]

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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