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Options
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   The options in the last part of the example configuration file
should be fairly self-explanatory.  The variables that can be set to
true or false do the same things as the commandline arguments with the
same names.

MANUAL
     If this is set to true the default is to first check for a man
     page, instead of a texinfo file.

CUT-MAN-HEADERS
     If set to true, then pinfo tries to cut off the repeated headers
     throughout man pages.

CUT-EMPTY-MAN-LINES
     If set to true, then pinfo tries to cut off the repeated newlines
     (i.e.  it will shorten each set of consecutive newlines to one
     newline).

RAW-FILENAME
     If set to true, the file argument is taken to be the name of a
     file in the current working directory, i.e.  the directories in
     `INFOPATH' will only be searched if a file with this name is not
     in the working directory.

APROPOS
     If set to true, apropos is called if no info or man page is found.

DONT-HANDLE-WITHOUT-TAG-TABLE
     If set to true, pinfo will not attempt to display texinfo pages
     without tag tables.

HTTPVIEWER
     Set this to the program you want to use to follow http links in
     documents.

FTPVIEWER
     Set this to the program you want to use to follow ftp links in
     documents.

MAILEDITOR
     Set this to your favourite email program, and it will be started
     if you follow an email link in a document.

PRINTUTILITY
     Utility, which you use for printing. I.e.  `lpr'. If you don't use
     any, you may also try something like `cat >/dev/lp1', or sth. ;)

MANLINKS
     This specifies the section names, which may be referenced in your
     man pages (i.e.  Xtoolkit man pages match the section 3Xt (see for
     example XtVaCreateWidget) manpage), Xlib function pages match
     section 3X11, etc. Such extensions may not be recognized by
     default, so it is a good idea to add them).

INFOPATH
     This allows you to override the default search paths for info
     pages.  Paths should be separated by colons.

MAN-OPTIONS
     This specifies the options, which should be passed to the `man'
     program.  (see man(1) for description of what they're like).

STDERR-REDIRECTION
     Pinfo allows you to redirect the stderr output of called
     programms.  For example if you don't want to see man's error
     messages about manual page formatting, you can use
     `STDER-REDIRECTION"> /dev/null"'.  This is the default.

LONG-MANUAL-LINKS
     This is another true/false option, which decides whether your
     system supports long manual section names, or not.  (i.e.
     "3ncurses" instead of "3").

FILTER-0XB7
     This decides, whether you want to convert 0xb7 chars to `o', or
     not.  For example for iso-8859-2 fonts this makes man's list marks
     a bit nicer ;) (look for example at perl's man page, to see how
     those marks look like).

QUIT-CONFIRMATION
     This decides whether you want to use quit confirmation on exit, or
     not.

QUIT-CONFIRM-DEFAULT
     This yes/no option determines the default answer to the
     QUIT-CONFIRMATION dialog.  (default answer is when you press a
     key, that does not match the asked question).

CLEAR-SCREEN-AT-EXIT
     This true/false option determines if you want to have your screen
     cleared at exit, or no.

HIGHLIGHTREGEXP
     This is an option, through which you may pass to pinfo regexps,
     which should be highlighted when working with document.  Warning!
     This may turn very slow if you use it without care!

SAFE-USER
     This option is used to pass the name of user, to which suid when
     pinfo is run with root privileges.

SAFE-GROUP
     This option is used to pass the name of group, to which suid when
     pinfo is run with root privileges.