From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT NO DOT SPAM DOT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Getting INFO M-x print-node to actually print?
Date:	Sat, 19 Apr 1997 23:27:06 +0000
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> That `+' tells the DJGPP startup code that if the variable is defined
> in the real environment, it overrides the value from DJGPP.ENV.  It's
> all in the docs (type "info know hidden djgpp").
> 
> Also note that since INFO_PRINT_COMMAND is passed to `popen', you
> don't need the ugly backslashes, you can say "> c:/info.prn" (recall
> that `popen' emulates redirection internally).

Actually, since I thought about it, I ended up changing it to this:

+INFO_PRINT_COMMAND=cat >info.prn

That way the print file goes in the current directory.  Thanks for the
tip.

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