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From:	(Wayne)
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Subject:	Re: problem with info and libgplus Top
Date:	Thu, 14 Dec 1995 22:12:05 GMT
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On Thu, 14 Dec 1995 17:19:24 GMT, jae AT Laden1 DOT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
(Juergen Erhard) wrote:

>I've installed djgpp 1.12 (and maint 1-4), but I couldn't read
>the lipgplus (or was it libgpp) info node. I've read the FAQ (Rev 1.2)
>and the entry on "can't find Top" (or similar).
>
>But can't I expect the thing to work "right out of the box" so to 
>speak?
>

If it weren't FREE, then, yes you could expect that.  


>I managed to get it working by renaming the entry in the dir.txi to
>libgpp (including the file), renaming the libgplus.tex to libgpp.txi
>and running makeinfo on both. Which might be a bit much to expect
>of a MS-DOS user.
>
As I understand it, it was developed for UNIX users that wanted to
port software over to the MS-DOS platform.

>Oh, and I got the software from an (official?) SimTel mirror, 
>fpt.uni-paderborn.de.
>
>Any comments? Form the folks building the distrib, that is? Or just
>correct it and ignore this (I don't want this to be a flame).
>
I'm not one of them.  This is just my $.02.


>PS: Actually, I love a challenge... that I can master!
>-- 
>Juergen A. Erhard
>eMail: jae AT laden DOT ilk DOT de
>snailMail: Juergen Erhard
>           Belfortstr. 6
>           76133 Karlsruhe
>           GERMANY
>phone: (+49) (0)721/27326

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