Mail Archives: djgpp/2003/02/09/13:11:25
> From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 16:07:07 GMT
> > >
> > > It certainly grows on you.
> >
> > Sorry, I don't understand what did you mean by that.
>
> Idiomatic, meaning you get to appreciate it more as time goes by.
Indeed.
> > > The principle nuisance (in info) is
> > > the absence of any means of printing out a node, or a collection
> > > of nodes.
> >
> > That's not true: type "Alt-x print-node", hit [Enter], and there you go.
> >
> > GUI Info readers have their own means to print a node.
> >
> > You can also print a series of nodes by redirecting info.exe's output to
> > the printer; see "info --help" for more.
>
> Learn something almost every day :-)
You may wish reading the DJGPP-specific README file in the Texinfo
distribution, it has a few such gems up its sleeve.
> Should that work to W9x printers - I can't print anything directly
> from a DOS box AFAICT.
In the DJGPP port, it writes the stuff to "PRN" as if it were a file.
If "copy foo prn" prints the file `foo' on your system, printing in
Info should work out of the box.
> p.s.: Just tried it. No joy.
Try capturing some LPTn port to the printer (either via the
Start->Settings->Printers applet or via "NET USE"). Then tell Info to
use that port by setting the environment variable INFO_PRINT_COMMAND;
see the DJGPP-specific README file in the Texinfo distribution for the
gory details (search for "Printing Nodes").
If the port capture method somehow does not work, you could try
looking for a command-line Windows program that can print to that
printer, then set up INFO_PRINT_COMMAND to invoke that program.
> info info doesn't tell me anything about those ALT-x commands
> either.
It does, it just calls them "ESC x" (the effect of ESC x is the same
as Alt-x). To see the list of those commands, type "C-h" inside Info,
then press PageDown (many times) until you come to a line which says
this:
"The following commands can only be invoked via ESC x:"
> Maybe that is for emacs only?
It is _modeled_ after Emacs, but works in Info as well. (Emacs calls
it Meta-x and its usual shorthand is M-x.)
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