Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/01/12/19:30:33
Eli Zaretskii wrote in message ...
>On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Graeme Fenwick wrote:
>> 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.
>You will need to read the manual of the stand-alone Info program first
>(from the DOS prompt, type "info 'info program'", the single quotes
>around the last two words are important).
??
Info on its own brings the program up, but adding those two words doesn't
seem to work...
(C:\WINDOWS) info 'info program'
Bad command or file name
The program locks up at this point, so I have to CTRL-C out of it.
>And then you will have to
>download the Texinfo sources, v2gnu/txi312s.zip, and read them.
>AFAIK, there's no other place where the design of Info is described.
I see what you mean. Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I should have been there.
When I said design, I meant from the usage point of view, the way it's set
up, new files are added to the tree (or whatever), even the concept of the
tree itself, and the straightforward stuff like navigation keys and so on.
>In general, there's no ``tree'' of Info files. Rather, there's a list
>of directories, much like PATH, where it looks for any file you ask
>for, either explicitly or implicitly.
This is the sort of thing I had in meant when I talked about design...
>> Believe it or not, some of us non-Unixers wouldn't know about that --help
>> switch thing.
>-help isn't standard on Unix either. It's a feature of the programs
>written by the GNU project.
Okay, semi-standard at least, then. Chances are any avid Unixer (is that the
right word?- tell me if it isn't, rather than laughing. Or do both ;-) )
will have come across it. Anyway, I'll remember that the next time I come
across a GNU port....
>The `strings' utility comes in handy in these cases: from the DOS
>prompt, type "strings info.exe | more", then scroll through all that,
>and you will see the help screen, including the --help switch.
As well as weird stuff like "I cannot grok this", "Grovel all known info
file's indices"... far out, man!
Thanks!
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