Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/14/12:41:38
Paul Derbyshire wrote:
>
> I had occasion to inspect an info
> file as raw text. Although it is ASCII, it is in a rather > incomprehensible
> format with strange control characters and all manner of peculiar line
> indentations, such as lines staggered in diagonal lines and suchlike.
> Since I can't conceive of anyone with an IQ short of Einstein's
> managing to write such a file in raw format (it seems in the same
> league as writing a 3-D Starfox like game *in assembly*) there must of
> necessity be editors for the making of these files laying about. Since
> it is some sort of unixy thing, the sources are llikely also laying
> about. Obtaining the sources quite likely involves little beyond a net
> search and a download, whereupon they might be (assuming ANSI
> compliance or close to it) recompiled for DOS using DJGPP.
>
ok, dos wraps lines longer than 80 characters automatically, that's the
reason you see those staggered lines. look at an info file by using an
editor, say 'edit make.i5'. there really isn't too much to it.
-- Sinan
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