Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/06/24/09:26:15
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
>
> > > Just set LFN=n before running makeinfo, and it will generate 8+3 names
> > > automagically.
> >
> > Yes but they can't be compressed because makeinfo generates:
> >
> > intinfo.100
> > intinfo.101
> >
> > and gzip names both as intinfo.10z, that's why the converter must do
> > some extra work.
>
> I don't think that would be necessary. This should do the job:
>
> set LFN=n
> makeinfo -o intinfo int2texi.txi
>
> (Alternatively, use the "@setfilename intinfo" command at the beginning
> of the converted Texinfo file.)
>
> This causes makeinfo to NOT use the .info extension and instead produce
> intinf-1, intinf-2, ..., intin-99, inti-100, etc. And then you compress
> them into intinf-1.gz etc., which info.exe should grok. If that doesn't
> work, it's a bug in makeinfo or in info, so please tell me.
It seems to work OK, I never noticed this feature.
> > But I sent to Magico a code that converts the names to:
> > intin100.inz, intin101.inz, etc and fixes the indirect table of the
> > first info file.
>
> I don't think such work-arounds should be necessary when makeinfo
> has a way of creating usable files by itself.
Well, files called xxxxx.i1, etc are usable. I can't see a bug here, that why I
never asked about it.
> I would also suggest to ask questions about such problems here before
> you decide that a given problem needs such work-arounds. It might be
> that a solution is already available, or that there's a bug in the
> ported package that should be corrected.
Perhaps you are right but:
1) My work around was faster than asking ;-)
2) The compression step was needed, so renaming files and patching the table
wasn't a big deal.
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