Date:	Tue, 17 Feb 1998 22:22:25 +0100
From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Message-Id:	<199802172122.WAA06589@acp3bf.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:	mk AT arrakis DOT cs DOT put DOT poznan DOT pl (Michal Kaczmarek)
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Info - problem reading about istream
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Organization:	RWTH Aachen, III. physikalisches Institut B

In article <34e8b35e DOT 62466 AT news DOT tpnet DOT pl> you wrote:
> I had just installed DJGPP and tried to get to know what a function
> of class istream do. I ran info.exe and chose:
> iostream->index->istream::getline

It's the '::' in there that kills it. By definition of the info file
format, Menu entries (and maybe node names as well, can't remember...)
are *not* allowed to contain the character ':'.

In other words: yes it is a bug, and it's in the libg++ docs.

> The program said:
> Istream: No such file or directory [ENOENT]

I'm guessing here, but I think this because it saw 'istream::getline'
and thought you wanted to open a file on drive 'Istream:' :-)

> By the way, just after writing the above text, I ran my linux,
> logged in, started info and checked for functions of istream.
> The effects were such as under Dos. I have Red-Hat 5.
> A coincidence? Bad luck? A curse ;-) ? A bug??

A bug it is, but not one specific to DJGPP, as you observed. You'll
have to complain to someone at the FSF (unless this is fixed already
in their latest versions, that is).

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

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