* doc/mc.1.in (Internal File Viewer): Rewrote some documentation.

Removed the paragraph about the growing buffers. It's generally
	uninteresting to users.
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2005-04-14 Roland Illig <roland.illig@gmx.de>
* doc/mc.1.in (Internal File Viewer): Rewrote some documentation.
Removed the paragraph about the growing buffers. It's generally
uninteresting to users.
2005-04-13 Roland Illig <roland.illig@gmx.de>
* configure.ac: Add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS if the maintainer mode

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.\"NODE "Internal File Viewer"
.SH "Internal File Viewer"
The internal file viewer provides two display modes: ASCII and hex.
To toggle between modes, use the F4 key. If you have the GNU gzip
program installed, it will be used to automatically decompress the
files on demand.
To toggle between modes, use the F4 key.
.PP
The viewer will try to use the best method provided by your system or
the file type to display the information. The internal file viewer
will interpret some string sequences to set the bold and underline
attributes, thus making a pretty display of your files.
the file type to display the information.
Some character sequences, which appear most often in preformatted manual
pages, are displayed bold and underlined, thus making a pretty display
of your files.
.PP
When in hex mode, the search function accepts text in quotes and
constant numbers. Text in quotes is matched exactly after removing
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.PP
Note that 012 is an octal number. -1 is converted to 0xFF.
.PP
Some internal details about the viewer: On systems that provide the
mmap(2) system call, the program maps the file instead of loading it;
if the system does not provide the mmap(2) system call or the file
matches an action that requires a filter, then the viewer will use
its growing buffers, thus loading only those parts of the file that
you actually access (this includes compressed files).
.PP
Here is a listing of the actions associated with each key that the
Midnight Commander handles in the internal file viewer.
.PP