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Date:	Wed, 23 Feb 2000 08:33:15 -0500
From:	Jonathan Meunier <jonathanm AT corel DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: (newbie) Texinfo/DJGPP/gzip questions
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> 
> In comp.os.msdos.djgpp Trancelucid <trancelucid AT videotron DOT ca> wrote:
> 
> > How does Texinfo knows to load djgppfaq.info when it is given "faq" as
> > argument (ie: "info faq <enter>") ? As far as I can see, this seems
> > hard-coded.. plz confirm.
> 
> No, it isn't hard-coded. There's a central menu of .info files. To see
> it, just call "info" without any further arguments. Arguments on the
> to the info command are treated as (abbreviated) names of menu
> entries, like in the 'm' command of info. That's how you can reach the
> documentation of printf via "info libc alpha printf".

That's exactly why I was confused. I runned Info without any parameters,
and there was this list with all the info files for various applications
(most of the GNU apps for DJGPP), so I thought it was hard-coded because
it listed apps I didn't even have installed.. but thanks to all those
who replied, I learned that it is in fact in the info/DIR file, and more
detailed information on that subject should be in the Texinfo manuals (I
had looked in the Info manuals but couldn't find anything on that
topic).

> There's an entry "FAQ" in there that leads to djgppfaq.info. If you
> really want to, you can edit this central menu. It's the file
> "info/dir" in your DJGPP tree.

I thought it was in the first few lines of every .info files. eg:
djgppfaq.info has the line  "* FAQ (djgppfaq)" in it.. I thought Info
read the first lines of every .info files in the /info dir, but as my
little experiments modifying this line (and the DIR file) proved, it is
not the fact.

> > What's the difference between gpp.exe and gxx.exe? In the FAQ, both are
> > referred as a port of g++, but they're not the same size.
> 
> gxx.exe was the name of the program, originally, and it was part of
> djdev, not the gpp package. Later on, after some functionality had
> been added, the name was changed to 'gpp.exe'.  If you have gpp,exe,
> use it. Otherwise stick with gxx.exe.

Thanks,
	.(Trancelucid).
	  .  Jaune  .

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