Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/12/21/07:21:33
On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Ned Ulbricht wrote:
> Yesterday, I downloaded the Simtel DJGPP archive distribution of GNU
> Emacs MS-DOS binaries (files: em1934b.zip and em1934r?.zip).
Please tell what are the sizes are date/time stamps of the .zip files
that you downloaded. There was a bug in older binary distribution that
would cause problems like what you describe, but it is corrected in the
latest distribution (dated October 27 or later).
> ! ! ! ! ! MY GUESS
> is that the immediate cause of my problem is that (as I've verified
> with other tools) the emacs/info/emacs file and all the
> emacs/info/emacs-?? files contain CR/LF sequences (0x0a 0x0d). In
> contrast, all of the other djgpp/info/* and emacs/info/* files
> contain only LFs.
This is incorrect. The DJGPP port of Emacs doesn't care about the CR/LF
pair, because the CR characters are stripped when the Info file is read.
It is also untrue that all of the files in the djgpp/info directory are
Unix-style, at least not on my system, and I can read all the Info files
in both Emacs and the stand-alone info.exe.
If you want to be sure whether this is the problem, run dtou.exe on the
file that has DOS-style lines, and see if that helps. My guess is it
won't.
> For instance, is there a simple setting to let emacs info know to
> recognize the dos end-of-line convention in an info file?
Emacs does that automagically.
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