From:	"Graeme Fenwick" <gfenwick AT BYESPAMprimex DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Documentation on Non-ANSI features, and Allegro problem!
Date:	Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:36:23 -0000
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Eli Zaretskii wrote in message ...
>Asking help for problems with using Info is NOT off-topic on the DJGPP
>forum.
>> Trouble
>> is, it seemed to install nicely when I set up DJGPP after getting the
files
>> off the web site, but I can't get it to read in any other .inf
>> files.
>What does that mean, exactly?  How did you try to to invoke Info, and
>what happened when you did?


Info on its own is fine.
I don't want to go too much into it, as I found what I was looking for
whilst running info. However, the main problem related to this- you
mentioned the function name, I thought, "Where can I find information on
this function?". So I used W95's find facility to find files (in the DJGPP
directories) containing the function name. The one that turned up was
libc.inf (or whatever the name was), and then I realised I didn't know how
to load it into Info.
Later on, by browsing the tree, I discovered it had already been set up with
this file, and got the information I required. However, I still want to go
back and see if Info comes with more information as to how the tree is set
up and so on (I get the impression I haven't understood the program's design
entirely yet). As I already know some of it, I'd rather go back and have
another look at the Info files on Info (!) first.

>> It doesn't even have a /? screen because it's a ******* Unix port.
>Of course, it does: just type "info --help" and you will see it.

I didn't mean it didn't have a help screen, just that the MSDOS style /?
didn't apply here as it was a Unix port.
Believe it or not, some of us non-Unixers wouldn't know about that --help
switch thing. I'll have to give that Unix-on-a-floppy thing a try (Tomsrtbt-
not a catchy name, but a nice idea).

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