Date:	Tue, 30 Dec 1997 10:30:02 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	rhayner AT complink DOT net
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: problems reading djgpp docs.
In-Reply-To:	<199712300615.BAA02627@delorie.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.971230102555.577O-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 rhayner AT complink DOT net wrote:

>     I am looking for a way to convert the files that come with djgpp
> that are read with info into standard ascii textfiles.  I am totally
> blind, and the info program doesn't work well at all with my speech
> output.

Did you try using the info.exe program with the -b or --speech-friendly 
switch?  If not, please do: it should make info.exe compatible with your 
speech synthesizer.  Here's an excerpt from the readme.djg file in the 
Texinfo distribution:

        * Info recognizes a new DOS-specific command-line option `-b'
          or `--speech-friendly'.  This option causes Info to use DOS
          I/O functions (`printf', `puts', etc.) instead of direct
          screen writes, which is required to enable speech
          synthesizer software (used by visually-impaired people) to
          grab the output.  When this option is given, the screen
          colors defined by the `INFO_COLORS' environment variable
          will be disabled, because stdio functions don't support
          color text.  This improvement was suggested and implemented
          by Hans-Bernhard Broeker <Broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>.

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