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Subject:	Re: DJGPP Gnu Info in a console window under Windows
Date:	Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:45:57 -0400
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On 09/07/2012 06:45 PM, rugxulo AT gmail DOT com wrote:
> 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.  ;-)

It did come with FreeDOS, though I knew of it before that.

>> 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).

I have Emacs 24.1 on the machine, and it works in both a GUI session and 
in a console window.  But I don't want to run it just to view info 
files.  I'd prefer a stand-alone viewer.  Salavador Tropea's Infview 
(also distributed with FreeDOS) works, and it's what I use at the 
moment, but I'd prefer a straight Info port to the TurboVision UI he uses.

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

And I'm trying to avoid Cygwin.  (I have it elsewhere, and it works, but 
I'd prefer to do without the POSIX compatibility layer.)

>> 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?).

It defaults to 80x25, but does not force it.  If your DOS app will run 
at a different size, you can configure a console window run from a 
shortcut to open in the defined size.

> 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.

I'd like to know if it can be, without source-crawling.
______
Dennis

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