Date:	Tue, 29 Oct 1996 08:15:02 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
Cc:	alex AT zool DOT unizh DOT ch, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Compressed info files
In-Reply-To:	<9610281745.aa28543@ailin.inti.edu.ar>
Message-Id:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.961029080806.18709C-100000@is>
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On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:

> a) The files are in UNIX format, and is better if you let the files in UNIX 
> format, so if the editor that you used puts CR+LF at the end of the line you 
> must run 'dtou gcc.inf' to convert the file to UNIX.
>  If you don't do that Emacs can fail reading the info files. (I don't have 
> Emacs so I'm only saying what I heard).

This is false.  Neither Emacs nor the stand-alone Info reader which comes 
with the DJGPP Texinfo package don't have any problems whatsoever to read 
either DOS- or Unix-style Info files.  (Both convert the files to Unix 
format on the fly.)

The reason that the Info files are Unix-style is to let people who work 
in non-native DOS environments (such as DOSEmu on Linux) handle these 
files with more grace, since Unix tools are much less permissive to CR 
characters at EOL than DOS tools to lack thereof.

> b) Try to correct the names without making the length of the file different, 
> for example: 'xxxxx.i10' modified to 'xxxxx.10 ' in the file.

Also unnecessary: the tag tables (which hold the info about where the 
chapters and sections begin) can be imprecise up to several thousands of 
bytes without affecting Info operation.  And the tag tables themeselves 
aren't counted for the purpose of the tags, as far as I recall.

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