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Subject:	Re: DJGPP Gnu Info in a console window under Windows
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Hi,

On Friday, September 7, 2012 3:27:47 PM UTC-5, DMcCunney wrote:
> I have an old (circa 2002) notebook I use as a test platform.  It 
> multi-boots a couple of flavors of Linux, Win2K SP4 (Win2K runs 
> acceptably, WinXP does not.) and FreeDOS, and I got the DJGPP stuff with 
> FreeDOS.

When you were recently mentioning old *nixes on old PCs, e.g. MKS in DOS, on the freedos-user mailing list, I forgot to mention DJGPP. Though no surprise you've heard of it.  ;-)
 
> I have an assortment of info files on the machine, and looked around for 
> an info viewer I could use under Windows.  There's a Gnuwin32 port of 
> info, but it has problems

Both GNU Emacs and JED both have Win32 ports and can read Info files (and jump around properly between nodes, etc).

http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/
http://www.jedsoft.org/cygwin/

> The DJGPP port of info runs in a console window under Win2K, but with a 
> quirk.  I prefer an 90x50 console window, but DJGPP sets an 80x40 screen 

Yeah, I think the NTVDM always forces more normal sizes for various reasons (compatibility?).

As for native DOS, I don't know what would happen, it might be hardcoded (you could check, but ...). Presumably it can be tweaked, but I'm not sure offhand. There I typically run 80x43 these days.

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