From:	softbrek AT POOL DOT Informatik DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE (Hans-Bernhard Broeker)
Subject:	Re: info not working
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)
Date:	Thu, 4 May 1995 15:53:52 +0200 (MET DST)

Hello, All

Today, answering Scott McCaskill's question (a FAQ, BTW, and
it is solved in Eli's FAQ-list, I think):

>>>> My problem is that now, when I go into info 
>>>> and try to go to the libgpp.a node, all I get is 'Cannot find the node 
>>>> "top"'.

Neville answered (almost correctly):

> > > 1) use utod to convert the files from unix to dos format.
             ^^^^ this should be dtou !
> > > 2) cat the files together (NB in order, ie with the top node file first) 
> > > using copy file1.i+file2.i ... file.inf

Then, two different posters advised to use DOS-style editors, like
edit.com or any Borland editor, in case you don't have utod.

This is exactly the *wrong* way round.

Using this kind of editors on multi-part info-files
is not the cure, it's the *cause* of the "cannot find node Top"
error-message (in almost all cases). And, as to not having dtou or
utod: everyone has them, if he/she's using DJGPP: they're part of
the distribution (don't ask me which of the *.zip's, though).

So in short: if you have trouble with your info-files, your first 
guess should be to run 'dtou' on them. If this doesn't fix it, you
must have found a new way to confuse info :-). A (probably better)
once-and-forever alternative solution is to get Eli's special 
version of info.exe, that can cope with DOSified info's (also
mentioned in the FAQ).

Hope this clarified things a bit

Hans-Bernhard

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