Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/12/21/13:46:37
on Sun, 21 Dec 1997 12:12:40 GMT Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> in
<Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 971221141216 DOT 8399b-100000 AT is> wrote:
>
>On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, John Covici wrote:
>
>> Hi. I am having trouble getting the various info readers to read each
>> others files. For instance, I typed info at the DOS prompt, and got the
>> directory for djgpp, but it wouldn't go to the jed one or the emacs one.
>> I tried
>> g and in the minibuffer (f:/jed/info)dir, but it said the file was not
>> found. I also tried the same thing with the emacs and got the same
>> result.
>
>Are you using the DJGPP.ENV file which came with djdev201.zip? Did
>you maybe edit that file? These problems should never happen with
>stock DJGPP.ENV, at least for Info and Emacs (I don't use jed), since
>DJGPP.ENV already sets INFOPATH for both Info and Emacs. It works for
>me.
>
>If your DJGPP.ENV is the original one, then you'd need to dig deeper
>and post some more information about your system. Possible causes to
>look into:
>
> 1) You installed Emacs outside the DJGPP directory. DJGPP.ENV
> assumes that Emacs is installed in %DJDIR%/gnu/emacs, where
> DJDIR is the top directory of the DJGPP installation.
I did install it outside, but I changed the entry to /emacs-20.2/info
which should work.
> Solution: copy the Emacs directory to where it belongs.
>
> 2) You are running Windows 95 and have some snafu related to long
> file names. Solution: try setting LFN=y in the environment.
It is set already and I unzipped emacs using winzip which is preserving
the lfn.
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John Covici
covici AT ccs DOT covici DOT com
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