Message-Id:	<199711030544.SAA04894@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz>
Subject:	Re: Some comments and questions
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date:	Mon, 3 Nov 1997 18:44:42 +1300 (NZDT)
From:	"Kris Heidenstrom" <kheidens AT actrix DOT gen DOT nz>
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.971102145608.11098b-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Nov 2, 97 02:56:45 pm
MIME-Version:	1.0

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Thank you for this comprehensive and accurate report!  Using it, it
> took me about 10 seconds to find out the reason for this misbehavior.

[...]

> It's not hanging, it's waiting for exactly 15 seconds.  Here's why.

[detailed explanation snipped]

Well, that explains everything!  Thanks for giving such a thorough
explanation.

> This should be fixed when the next version of Texinfo is ported to
> DJGPP.  There should be no futile waiting on MS-DOS, or at least there
> should be a message to the effect that it's waiting.

Right.  It's odd that it ran okay under DR-DOS but not under MS-DOS
6.2.  Perhaps DR-DOS's command interpreter writes a newline to stdout
as well as issuing the error message to stderr.

I have one more silly question though:

> Otherwise, it assumes that the shell is of the Unix-style variety, and
> that it can grok forward slashes, and calls it in a way that Unix

What does 'grok' mean?  Is it a neologism like 'kludge'?

Thanks again

Kris
-- 
Kris Heidenstrom   kheidens AT actrix DOT gen DOT nz   Wellington, New Zealand
               Electronic designer and programmer
       "Good sense is the most valuable good on the market"

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