Re: Standalone Info reader cannot read Info files with CR-LF EOLs

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> There's still a problem of Info files produced by makeinfo 4.x on
> Windows -- these will not be reliably readable with the new
> stand-alone Info.  I think we need to have a solution for that as
> well, at least as a user option, if not automatically.  (One way of
> doing that automatically would be to detect the 4.x version from the
> file's preamble.)

I've committed some changes that will likely work for these files as
well as the other files. It worked for me on the files I've tried.
Please have a try.

(While testing these changes I noticed that there doesn't seem to be
any support in the standalone Info reader for varying lengths of file
preambles in a split file (some mention of that here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2013-08/msg00040.html),
so there could be some more changes coming to do with tag table
processing. )